News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which…
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Microsoft Research project helps languages survive — and thrive
A woman named Boa Sr was the last link to a 65,000-year-old pre-Neolithic culture on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. When she died in 2010, the Bo language died, too, becoming extinct. If…
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Scotland’s ‘innovation fellowship scheme’ points to better health and social care future
Harnessing the game-changing potential of emerging technologies is important in every sector – but within NHS Scotland it is absolutely vital. Improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare must be a key driver in supporting…
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Microsoft, university researchers use AI to aid in study of ancient script on China’s ‘oracle bones’
Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them. The script…
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Introducing ClimaX: The first foundation model for weather and climate
We are announcing ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science. ClimaX is trained using several heterogeneous datasets spanning many weather variables at multiple spatio-temporal resolutions. We show that such…