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In the news | Época Negócios | One Planet
Microsoft accelerates data and AI applications to digitize agriculture
Microsoft’s leading researcher in the application of technologies in the field, Ranveer Chandra, tells how the company works to help create the future of agriculture.
In the news | Muckrock
Project Eclipse helps city of Chicago monitor air quality
Chicago’s air quality is among the worst in the U.S., and there are several local hotspots for particulate matter 2.5 — the tiny particles that come from diesel trucks and industry and enter people’s lungs and blood, causing significant health…
Awards | ACM SOCC'22 Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, ACM SoCC 2022
Supriyo Ghosh, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, and Suman Nath won the Best Paper award at ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2022 for their paper How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-Scale Cloud Service
Awards | UnB Notícias
Rico Malvar Receives Doctor Honoris Causa honorary degree
Rico Malvar received the honorary degree “Doctor Honoris Causa” from his alma mater University of Brasília, Brazil.
In the news | National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce appoints Ranveer Chandra to the new Internet of Things Advisory Board
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts, including Dr. Ranveer Chandra, for the new Internet of Things Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the Internet of Things Federal Working Group (opens in new tab). The board represents a broad…
In the news | DeepLearning.AI
Smarts for Farms
The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. What’s new: Microsoft open-sourced AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields. How it works: FarmVibes-AI includes systems that analyze overhead imagery and sensor data to…
In the news | The Hindu
Microsoft to open source its agri-tech tools to enable data-driven farming
Experts believe that open sourcing tech tools for farming can help tackle world’s urgent food and climate change crisis. Microsoft will open source the tools of its farm-focused technology, Project FarmVibes, to let researchers, data scientists, and farmers build on…
In the news | NewsNation
Farmers are harvesting data to increase yields
Andrew Nelson’s family has farmed in the rolling hills of eastern Washington state for five generations. Rows of wheat, peas, lentils and barley stretch across their 7,500-acre farm. Yet each spring, those hills provided constant stress when trying to predict…
In the news | TechTalkThai
Microsoft opens open source AI algorithms to help manage farms
Microsoft has announced the launch of the FarmVibes project and released open source, FarmVibes.AI ai algorithms used in this project, a project that uses AI to manage farms, helping to make farming more efficient. Within the system, several types of…