Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted our health, economy, and psychosocial well-being. Public health mitigation measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large gatherings, and washing hands have demonstrated benefit in curbing the spread…
They trained Maia on millions of online games played by humans. We mere mortals haven’t truly been competitive against artificial intelligence in chess in a long time. It’s been 15 years since a human has…
Sumit Gulwani received POPL’s Most Influential Paper Award 2021 (opens in new tab) for his paper Automating String Processing in Spreadsheets Using Input-Output Examples. This is the second consecutive year in a row that Sumit has been…
Steve Hodges, Ivan Tashev and Tom Zimmermann were elevated to the level of IEEE Fellow for 2021. The accomplishments that are being honored are a result of important contributions that led to the advancement or…
What should you know about Ability and Accessibility in AI and responsible technology development? In this episode we interview Meredith Ringel Morris, a computer scientist conducting research in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative…
Microsoft Research Asia announced the establishment of OpenNetLab (opens in new tab), an open networking community and platform in collaboration with multiple universities in Asia, including academia from China, Korea and Singapore.
Vision-language (VL) systems allow searching the relevant images for a text query (or vice versa) and describing the content of an image using natural language. In general, a VL system uses an image encoding module…
Patients with COVID-19 are set to benefit from faster treatment, improved outcomes and shorter hospital stays thanks to the use of the latest artificial intelligence. 1) AI imaging database will improve diagnosis of patients presenting…
On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI.…
