Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some…
Business Applications Applied AI
Enabling the people closest to business challenges to resolve them using intelligent apps.
Advocacy Platform
The Advocacy Platform is a cloud solution to automate the acquisition of case decisions, court hearings and location information from the EOIR hotline. Additionally, this solution helps NGOs working with Asylum seeker families at risk…
Research for Industries (RFI) Lecture Series: Steven K. Frey
Physics-based groundwater – surface water modeling at continental scale Aquanty, which is a research spin off from the University of Waterloo, is at the forefront of developing state-of-the-art fully-integrated hydrologic models to better understand and…
Panel: Monitoring for environmental equity: A hyperlocal air quality network in Chicago
Air pollution is an invisible health hazard, responsible for an estimated 10 million premature deaths annually. Pollution is also unequally distributed within cities, producing inequitable exposures that are a key environmental justice concern. This panel…
Technology demo: Project Eclipse: Hyperlocal air quality monitoring for cities
Project Eclipse is a full-stack solution for neighborhood scale air quality monitoring in cities. Custom low-cost, solar powered sensing hardware feeds an Azure-based data and analytics stack that then drives end user experiences for various…
Panel: Characteristics, learnings, and challenges of thriving organizations
First, Nancy Baym gives an over of the six principles of thriving organizations. Organizations of all kinds are seeking new footing as their assumptions about how they can and must function have been disrupted over…