The 2nd China International Import Expo (hereinafter referred to as "CIIE") will be held in Shanghai from November 5th to 10th. At this year's CIIE, Microsoft entered the "Technology Life" exhibition area. Through the three major themes of AI+ Organization Transformation, AI+ Innovation and AI+ Beautiful Society, it focused on displaying Microsoft A series of advanced technologies, products and solutions represented by artificial intelligence, through a series of rich practical applications and landing scenarios, fully demonstrate that Microsoft, together with Chinese enterprises, developers and partners, jointly grasp the opportunities of digital transformation, release innovative wisdom, and jointly Build a better future to fulfill Microsoft's corporate mission of "Empowering every person and every organization in the world to achieve extraordinary things".

AI+ Organizational Transformation Area: Empowering Enterprise Transformation and Winning Innovation Opportunities

With the world's leading Microsoft intelligent cloud services and artificial intelligence technology, Microsoft is actively helping enterprises and organizations in all walks of life around the world to win innovation opportunities in digital transformation. In the AI+ organization transformation area, Microsoft focused on the application scenarios of artificial intelligence helping enterprises and organizations to improve productivity and optimize business processes, as well as innovative solutions for vertical industries such as logistics and retail.

At the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) held earlier, Microsoft officially announced the launch of the "Microsoft AI Business School" project in Greater China, which combines global offline interactive teaching and online course two-way resources , reached strategic partnerships with three well-known business schools, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, China Europe International Business School, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, focusing on all aspects of artificial intelligence strategy formulation, cultural construction, and technology deployment, providing future business leaders, innovative companies, Business executives create a comprehensive AI business curriculum. The course covers three topics of concern to contemporary AI leaders: defining AI strategy, embracing AI culture, and fostering responsible and reliable AI.

Microsoft Research Asia has partnered with Orient Overseas Shipping Lines (OOCL), an international container shipping and logistics company, to create an artificial intelligence logistics scheduling solution. In traditional scenarios, due to the imbalance of import and export trade in different regions, the demand for empty containers in various ports varies greatly. How to effectively dispatch empty containers between different ports is a very important part of the operation process of the shipping industry. Microsoft Research Asia has customized a collaborative reinforcement learning framework for OOCL, based on which the scheduling optimization of shipping sources is carried out. This intelligent logistics solution shortens the time for a route optimization from 1-3 hours to milliseconds, and is expected to save OOCL US$10 million in operating costs per year.

Microsoft 365 integrates Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite into one smart office scenario, allowing enterprises to realize Modern Workplace. This includes not only the applications of enterprise employees in daily office, such as: AI applications for business data analysis, language communication, professional document production, and information collection and sorting, but also solutions that can realize intelligent communication and collaboration: through In Microsoft Teams, enterprise employees can realize the "real-time subtitle" function through speech-to-text; in video conferences, users can blur their own backgrounds, or change the background; through Microsoft Teams video conferences, users can convert whiteboard content into The electronic virtual whiteboard realizes the technology of avoiding occlusion of the human body; enterprises and organizations can also realize video interaction with the participants in the video conference. And all of this will be achieved in an intelligent, secure, and attack-resistant network environment.

In this area, Microsoft will also showcase how Dynamics 365 Guides empower employees to learn by doing. As a new mixed reality application, Dynamics 365 Guides can guide employees to learn the relevant tools and parts they need to know and use in real work scenarios, enhancing the learning process. By creating interactive content, attaching photos and videos, importing 3D models, and customizing training, users can turn institutional knowledge into reusable learning tools. The application helps reduce downtime and increase the efficiency of mission-critical equipment and processes.

Based on Microsoft Intelligent Cloud, Microsoft and Yum Software have jointly created E3+ enterprise mid-stage product solutions. As an omni-channel digital retail solution service provider with nearly two decades of development, Yum Software has accumulated rich experience and practice in the retail field. The E3+ enterprise mid-stage product solutions displayed this time are mainly aimed at large-scale enterprises that want to seize the opportunity in the industry through transformation and reform, and create a future-oriented sustainable iterative upgrade technology + basic business foundation for them platform. With the help of Microsoft Intelligent Cloud, it can help enterprises to achieve flexible expansion, easily realize multi-point backup in different places, and enable enterprises to build and run highly available applications without having to focus on infrastructure.

iLabService's INTELAB is a set of intelligent laboratory cloud solutions that integrate IoT, machine learning, automation and other technologies. This solution is based on Microsoft's intelligent cloud Azure. It has strong compatibility and scalability and can assist users Easily and quickly connect the laboratory equipment, environment, materials, personnel, etc. in a digital form, so that users can understand the laboratory situation anytime and anywhere, and support users by analyzing and utilizing the collected multi-dimensional data. Operate and manage laboratories more intelligently and efficiently.

As one of the first companies to settle in Microsoft's AI and IoT Labs, Boonray brought a drone river inspection solution to this exhibition. In the past, in the process of water pollution control, many teams faced many difficulties in traditional manual operations, such as the scattered distribution of rivers, huge consumption of personnel energy, low inspection efficiency, and difficulty in checking sewage outlets. The UAV river inspection solution realizes fully automatic river cruise, data collection, analysis and other work. With the help of IoT Hub, Event Hub, Cosmos DB and other services on Microsoft Smart Cloud, the system can easily realize remote management and control of drones, and identify and analyze the real-time images taken by them. If foreign objects such as garbage are found in the river , you can dispatch an automatic collection ship to recycle it. This solution realizes non-contact and efficient river inspection, reduces a lot of manpower investment in the treatment process, strengthens the accuracy and safety of the inspection process, and finally achieves the automation, informatization and visualization of the whole process of water quality monitoring, which is convenient for subsequent targeted water quality restoration and long-term regulation.

AI+ Innovation Zone: Promoting the innovation and development of the technology industry

In the field of artificial intelligence, Microsoft is committed to popularizing artificial intelligence for all, providing innovation platforms and technical tools for enterprises, developers, and partners, and empowering the innovation and development of the ecosystem and the entire technology industry.

The artificial intelligence translation service Microsoft Translator aims to eliminate language barriers in face-to-face communication, helping users around the world to easily achieve efficient communication and extensive collaboration. At present, Microsoft Translator can easily realize real-time translation of more than 60 languages and more than 10 voices. The Microsoft Translator API can also be integrated into any website or application, as well as on any device and any operating system, thus helping thousands of people around the world. of enterprises improve the efficiency of applications and workflows, reduce costs, and communicate more effectively with customers around the world. The Presentation Translator plug-in designed and developed for PowerPoint can display translation subtitles in multiple languages in real time on different clients during the slide show process, and can easily save the real-time subtitles and translation results completely.

Upgraded to the seventh generation of Microsoft XiaoIce, it is one of the global cross-domain artificial intelligence systems. It has covered 660 million online users, 450 million third-party smart devices and 900 million content viewers in many countries, greatly expanding the interactive scene. In this case, the average number of conversation rounds (CPS) between Microsoft Xiaoice and users remained at 23 rounds. The first-generation toolkit of the Avatar Framework recently launched by Microsoft XiaoIce for partners has the same origin as the Microsoft XiaoIce framework, which can easily build artificial intelligence assistants, social dialogue robots, artificial intelligence content creation and IP characters with complete emotional computing capabilities. As one of the branches of this framework, the Microsoft XiaoIce exhibition area showcases XiaoIce's AI Creation achievements in various forms, including paintings of different styles, audiobooks specially created for children, and restoration of human Singing with breath level and vocal conversion, etc. As a pioneer in artificial intelligence creation, Microsoft advocates using artificial intelligence technology to solve the contradiction between supply and demand of highly customized content. At present, it has mastered the world's leading core technologies in text, sound and visual creation, and has released actual online products. Among them, the artificial intelligence textile and apparel fabric design platform jointly launched with the China National Textile and Apparel Council has been put into production, and the products of SELECTED, Wanshili, Yiwen and other brands have been put on sale. "Xiaoice Studio" has a wealth of models, including multiple sound models spanning a variety of singing skills, multiple painting models, etc., which can enable these production lines to use stable quality and extremely low cost without human participation. , High-concurrency production and supply of content, and some production lines have achieved industrialization.

Azure Kinect DK smart terminal equipment is equipped with a variety of industry-leading artificial intelligence sensors, which can perceive and understand the world. By integrating advanced artificial intelligence technology, a variety of sensors are integrated into one device, including three-dimensional space recognition, voice recognition, high-definition cameras and more. The 1-megapixel ToF depth camera can capture information about the surrounding environment in near real-time; the 12-megapixel high-definition camera provides a color image data stream that matches the depth data, and a 3D electronic accelerometer and 3D electronic gyroscope (IMU) give the sensor orientation. And spatial tracking capability, an external sync pin makes it easy to synchronize multiple Kinect sensor data streams simultaneously. And when it is combined with Azure Cognitive Services, it can develop advanced computer vision and speech models, bringing more intelligent terminal solutions to enterprises.

HoloLens is Microsoft's first mixed reality device, and it is the next-generation smart device that Microsoft is dedicated to creating for the third wave of computing. When people wear HoloLens, with the help of mixed reality technology, they can see the fusion of virtual images and the real world, breaking through the way we observe the world in the past. At present, HoloLens is mainly used in the commercial market, especially in the manufacturing, automotive, medical, construction and so on.

Azure Sphere is an end-to-end highly secure solution for IoT devices, aiming to improve the security level of the entire IoT industry. Medical and industrial edge devices provide complete security protection: the first element of the solution is a new type of security MCU, which is provided by Microsoft's semiconductor partners. All Sphere MCUs will have built-in Microsoft's security system IP; the second The element is a secure operating system, built for IoT devices, that combines the best of Microsoft and Open Source Software (OSS) technologies, making it a trusted platform for a new IoT experience; the third element is a cloud service, Azure Sphere The cloud service ensures that each IoT device can continuously receive security services, continuous software updates, uninterrupted detection of potential security threats in the entire ecosystem, and ensures that the connection and communication between devices and devices and devices and the cloud are based on certificate authentication, Safe and reliable.

AI+Beautiful Society: Empowering social development, talent education, AI brings more beautiful possibilities

In this theme area, Microsoft focused on displaying a series of artificial intelligence technologies that have been applied in our lives today, artificial intelligence public welfare projects, and new possibilities for artificial intelligence to empower talent education in the new era.

The K12 artificial intelligence visual programming platform is an artificial intelligence programming platform specially designed for youth programming education. Based on the online graphical programming platform, combined with the technical characteristics of Microsoft's artificial intelligence, it integrates computational thinking and practice, and compiles teaching courses according to the teaching use scenarios, so as to realize low-threshold visual programming teaching and hands-on experiments. The K12 artificial intelligence visual programming platform course is aimed at primary and secondary school students. It covers a systematic teaching plan for all ages in primary and secondary schools, helps to better understand artificial intelligence, and realizes innovative programming through hands-on production through an immersive learning experience. Incorporate artificial intelligence technology into course writing, including: voice, language, vision, search, etc., from simple to deep, combining theory with practice, so that students can master and apply the artificial intelligence programming platform from zero foundation.

STEAM course is a course based on the concept of interdisciplinary education in Microsoft Innovation School. During the experience, students will be able to receive the enlightenment of artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things and other technical thinking. The course is committed to cultivating students' interests and comprehensive qualities for all-round development in various fields. It breaks the restrictions between subjects from the teaching side, and the task setting is more interactive and hands-on, helping students to have more comprehensive abilities from the early stage of basic ability training.

At this exhibition, Microsoft also exhibited the Microsoft AI public welfare process. Microsoft has always advocated the use of artificial intelligence technology to empower the world, improve social well-being, promote the sustainable development of people and nature, and enhance human capabilities.