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Opinion: Social media platforms not only host troubling images of suicide and self-harm, they end up recommending it to the people most vulnerable to it.

Today we’re joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Hanna and I really dig into how bias and a lack of interpretability and transparency show up across machine learning. We discuss the…

The Computer History Museum (CHM), the world’s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its transformational impact on society, honored Leslie Lamport, along with 3 others, as a 2019 Fellow Award honoree for his…

HIMSS 2019 has come and gone, but for the about 45,000 health and technology professionals who attended, its impact will be felt for a long time. We came to HIMSS to talk about how Microsoft for Healthcare will…

HIMSS 2019 has come and gone, but for the about 45,000 health and technology professionals who attended, its impact will be felt for a long time. We came to HIMSS to talk about how Microsoft…

FPGA technology allows Microsoft to deliver highly efficient deep learning as a service in a way that addresses specific customer requests. “A lot of the problems that they want to solve are around image analysis,”…

It’s not enough to have brilliant researchers and a bunch of popular products. You’ve got to have a system–or several systems–for melding raw technology into experiences that make a difference for businesses and consumers.

On the most fundamental level, ensuring that Microsoft AI innovations benefit Microsoft customers is about making sure that research and product teams aren’t siloed off from each other.

The young Microsoft software engineer had just moved to the U.S. and was trying her best to stay in close touch with her parents back home, calling them on Skype every week. But their internet…