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“What can we do?” Those words continued to echo as I returned home from the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2019. The director of a major news organization asked me that question point blank…

B.J. Moore knew he had to stick to his gut. He had just made a crucial choice as the new chief information officer at Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems, spanning 51 hospitals…

Children’s Mercy Kansas City, an award-winning hospital and research institute, manages one of the leading genome sequencing centers in the United States. To better support researchers, Children’s Mercy is working with Microsoft and Pacific Biosciences…

But as the software improves, access to material gets harder.

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them. It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess.…

One fantastic feature in search engines is that they can understand when you misspell a word and correct it. This seemingly simple feature saves a lot of time in an average internet user’s life, but…

The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and…

Microsoft has launched a new language system that should help to improve the search experience in Bing. The tool is called Speller100, and it leverages several AI models to correct spelling in over 100 languages…

As computational science and data science are becoming closer than ever, a deal with Microsoft could see Verily and Broad Institute’s open-source cloud platform hit new users.

Microsoft has explained how it is using a variety of technologies and techniques to fix bad spellings that can mean queries addressed to its Bing search engine would otherwise deliver the wrong results. The software…