The story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
Adam Troy had an idea. He was spending so much time searching through old emails and attachments to prepare for meetings: Could AI help him be better prepared for meetings? Could machine learning automatically identify…
Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans
Leading Science and Technology: India Next?
We all understand the importance of economic growth and social development programs for India. Do we consider research and innovation equally important? No… The talk will start with presenting reasons why India should aspire to…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Exascale
Our ability to produce data continues to grow exponentially, and so does the computational power available in the world. By 2021, it is expected that zettabytes will be stored in the cloud, and the DoE…
Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
The Microsoft Research Outreach team has worked extensively with the external research community to enable adoption of cloud-based research infrastructure over the past few years. Through this process, we experienced the ubiquity of Jim Gray’s…
City Data Exchange and Edge Analytics: A case for an Open Stack
The Indian government is attempting an ambitious aspirational move to “smarten” India’s cities. We do a deep dive analysis of a recent RFP for the same, which has been put out by the city of…