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In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Brainwave makes Bing’s AI over 10 times faster
Microsoft announced today that its use of specialized hardware for AI computation allowed it to get more than 10 times faster performance for a machine learning model that powers functionality of its Bing search engine.
Microsoft and Tsinghua University Work Together on Open Academic Data Research
In a recent collaboration, Microsoft and China’s Tsinghua University released an academic graph, named Open Academic Graph (OAG). This billion-scale academic graph integrates the current Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) and Tsinghua’s AMiner academic graph. Specifically, it contains the metadata information…
In the news | Polygon
Sea of Thieves team put anti-toxicity strategies into gameâs core design
Jerome Hagen, a user researcher at Microsoft, spoke about design strategy at GDC 2018 today in a panel on empowering players and combating multiplayer toxicity.
Brokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam
Episode 15, March 7, 2018 – Dr. Badam discusses the historic trade-offs between volatile and non-volatile memory, shares how software-defined batteries are changing the power-supply landscape, talks about how his research is aiming for the trifecta of speed, cost and…
In the news | AI Business
Data Farming: Building Precision Agriculture With AI, IIoT, and Microsoft FarmBeats
Chandra believes that the FarmBeats system is a unique showcase for how IoT and AI can be used in a challenging scenario to solve some of the worldâs hardest problems.
Awards | Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Mary Czerwinski selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Mary Czerwinski was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (opens in new tab) (APS). Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching,…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft’s focus on transforming healthcare: Intelligent health through AI and the cloud
Working side-by-side with the healthcare industry’s most pioneering players, we are bringing Microsoft’s capabilities in groundbreaking research and product development to help healthcare providers, biotech companies and organizations around the world use artificial intelligence and the cloud to innovate.
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Soundscape app empowers people who are blind or have low vision to explore the world
Advancements in technology can play a deep and meaningful role in the independent mobility of people who are blind or have low vision. That is why we created Microsoft Soundscape, a research project available today for free on iOS and…
In the news | Asia News Center
Indoor vertical farming in Asia and beyond: Digging deep in data
When it comes to farming, Ken Tran digs deep – not in dirt, but in data. He doesn’t drive a tractor and he doesn’t pull a plow. But he is helping to sow the seeds of a new type of…