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Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Bing is now using natural language generation models (models that generate text) to improve its autosuggest and People Also Ask (PAA) features, the company announced Wednesday. It is also expanding the use of natural language…
Early research on what could one day live in the cloud Microsoft has announced Project HSD, an effort to build holographic storage devices for its Azure cloud service. While the idea of storing data throughout…
It’s possible thanks to modern smartphone cameras. Microsoft is looking beyond flash storage and hard drives to handle the seemingly unstoppable demand for cloud storage. Yesterday at its Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSD (via ZDNet (opens…
As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they’re looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that…
As part of the companywide AI at Scale initiative, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it plans to begin working with select customers to further develop its Turing natural language representation (NLR) models. AI…
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at…
Project Holographic Storage Device works on new holographic storage device for ‘warm’ data in the cloud. Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale…
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions…
Microsoft Premonition was a Microsoft Research project with a goal of scalable monitoring of the environment to detect disease threats early, using robotics and genomics. Microsoft Premonition is a collection of technologies – hardware, software…
Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an…