Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Back in 2018, Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall asked the audience during his TED talk (opens in new tab): what if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the…
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Kalai’s contributions have helped…
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under the heading: “nature-based tourism.”
Microsoft’s head of research and his colleagues believe chatbots will be used by medical professionals, as well as by patients, with increasing frequency. Peter Lee could use some rest. Microsoft’s head of research has been…
Lorin Crawford is one of eight awardees of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Award. For path-breaking research combining theory and methods of mathematics, statistics and computing to generate new knowledge and insight about the genetic…
Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve…
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, was tasked with assessing the implications of GPT-4 for medicine. And he thinks it could increase efficiency and even empathy in the healthcare system, as well as boost biomedical…
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
Our paper, Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms, was selected as a distinguished paper by the ASPLOS’23 organizers. Congrats to Daniel S. Berger and Pantea Zardoshti .