Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025

In this edition:

• We introduce privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning, a framework using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments, and other notable new research.
• We congratulate Yasuyuki Matsushita, who was named an IEEE Computer Society Fellow.
• We’ve included a recap of the extraordinary, far-reaching work done by researchers at Microsoft in 2024.