Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff (opens in new tab), Akshay Krishnamurthy (opens in new tab), John Langford (opens in new tab) and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves…
“We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself,” says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being…
After the success of the punch-hole front-facing camera the next major development for selfie cameras is fully under-display cameras, where the cameras are behind a transparent OLED screen which would still work as a normal…
Your code is safe and sound in the Arctic At GitHub Universe 2019 (opens in new tab), we introduced the GitHub Archive Program (opens in new tab) along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault (opens in new tab). Our mission is…
Today, Microsoft released the preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR—a fully managed feature of the Azure API for FHIR. The connector empowers health teams with the technology for a scalable end-to-end pipeline to ingest,…
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain,…
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding…
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper (opens in new tab) published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that…