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Today’s technology is transforming home health care
Public health organizations are chartered with ensuring the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Their scope of responsibility is wide-ranging and varies from country to country, and they are required to provide direct healthcare services to their citizens,…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft for Healthcare: Empowering our customers and partners to provide better experiences, insights and care
At Microsoft, our goal within healthcare is to empower people and organizations to address the complex challenges facing the healthcare industry today. We help do this by co-innovating and collaborating with our customers and partners as a trusted technology provider.…
Awards | Measuring System Visual Latency through Cognitive Latency on Video See-Through AR devices
Best Paper: Honorable Mention, IEEE VR
Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline with Dr. Debadeepta Dey
Dr. Debadeepta Dey is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at MSR and he’s currently exploring several lines of research that may help bridge the gap between perception and planning for autonomous agents, teaching them to…
Democratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann
Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to inspire others to think big, too. But don’t be fooled. For him, thinking big involves…
Microsoft Scheduler and dawn of Intelligent PDAs with Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya
In a world where productivity is paramount and only a handful of people have personal assistants, many of us are frustrated by the amount of time we spend in meetings, and worse, the amount time we spend planning, scheduling and…
In the news | Fortune
A.I. and tackling the risk of “digital redlining”
Last week, a Dutch court ordered the government in the Netherlands to stop using a machine-learning algorithm for detecting welfare fraud, citing human rights violations. The system, called System Risk Indicator (SyRI) in English, was being used by four Dutch…
In the news | The Register
Meet Clippy 9000: Microsoft brags about building Earth’s largest AI language model, refuses to let it out of the lab
There’s a new giant AI language model in town: enter Microsoft’s Turing-NLG system, which apparently contains a whopping 17 billion parameters, making it the largest publicly known model of its class yet.
In the news | Neowin
Microsoft builds the world’s largest transformer-based language generation model
Transformer-based language generation models have enabled better conversational applications. Though they still have their shortcomings, which were recently exposed by a team at MIT, researchers continue improving them to build better, larger, and more robust models.