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Bosque is described as a programming language that is “simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.” As a supporter of technology that is “simple”, “obvious” and “easy”, I was interested…

Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning (opens in new tab), so…

Big data analytics is no joke — research firm Research and Markets anticipates the segment will be worth upwards of $40.6 billion by 2024. Perhaps that’s why it’s not surprising that ahead of Inspire 2019…

A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data.

RENTON, Wash., and REDMOND, Wash., July 8, 2019 – Microsoft Corp. and Providence St. Joseph Health today announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of health care. The alliance will combine the…

Microsoft unveils the first collaborations for its Station B, a platform to automate lab experiments so scientists can test and reproduce ever-more-complex designs.

Peter Lee, vice president of Microsoft Healthcare, discusses the signing of Providence St. Joseph Health as a customer of its Azure and artificial intelligence tools. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”

GPU acceleration or architectural specialization are not new concepts, but some experts predict they will become increasingly common to speed up performance and also lower energy costs of future systems.