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Towards quantum computing

Towards quantum computing

New to quantum? Here's a primer.

Quantum Computing 101: An introduction to the mind-bending world of quantum computing.

Towards quantum computing

Station Q

Station Q represents Microsoft’s global effort to bring together the world’s mathematicians, computer scientists, quantum physicists, and engineers to build a scalable, fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer.

With quantum computing simulator, a sneak peak into the future of computing - Microsoft Research blog

Quantum computing at Microsoft - meet the team

"Quantum computing could solve problems that would take today's computers eons..." - read more about The Quest for a Quantum Future

Microsoft's New Quantum Simulator LIQUiI>

Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: LIQUi|>

LIQUi|> is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators. LIQUi|> can be used to translate a quantum algorithm written in the form of a high-level program into the low-level machine instructions for a quantum device.

Using computing to fight cancer

Jasmin Fisher

How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer

Jasmin Fisher doesn’t want to cure cancer. She wants to solve it - and she believes it’s possible in her lifetime.

Using computing to fight cancer

Video: Programming cells

If scientists can understand cancer and the immune systems as well as they understand how to make Microsoft Word run on a PC, they might be able to equip the immune system to mount a powerful response to cancer on its own.

Project Hanover: Parsing the world's genetic knowledge

Meet the researchers: Biological Computation Group

Blog: Molecular biology meets computer science tools in new system for CRISPR

A team of researchers has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR.

Using computing to fight cancer

Video: Using technology to personalize cancer treatment

Machine learning is helping doctors automatically sort fragmented patient information to find the most relevant pieces of data to define the best treatment plan for their patients.

Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence​

Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence​

Unleash the Power of AI for Everyone

Today, we are changing how companies approach automatic translation by leveraging our artificial intelligence expertise to enable anyone to quickly and easily customize translation systems, even without large amounts of previously translated sentences.

Microsoft Researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge

Featured Program: AI Engage

Browse the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Area

Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence​

Microsoft Bot Framework (preview)

Build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.

Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence​

CNTK: Open source deep learning toolkit on GitHub

Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its Computational Network Toolkit on GitHub.

Systems for the intelligent cloud

Systems for the intelligent cloud

Featured Program: Azure for Research

The Microsoft Azure for Research program offers researchers the opportunity to apply for large allocations of Azure cloud computing resources. Apply for one of our Azure for Research awards by telling us how the cloud can help solve some of your data-intensive research challenges. Your proposal will be among the 2,000 proposals submitted by Azure researchers around the world. Azure awards have been awarded to approximately 700 selected recipients of Azure for Research Awards to date.

Systems for the intelligent cloud

Project Natick: The underwater data center

Project Natick is Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015.

R2C2: A Network Stack for Rack-scale Computers Publication

Project Catapult

Browse the Systems & Networking Research Area

Systems for the intelligent cloud

The PinDrop project

Building the substrate supporting high-quality real-time streaming over wired and wireless networks

Scientists and engineers working together to help solve global challenges

In the news

Bing and Azure both gain speed from Microsoft’s new use of field-programmable gate arrays

GeekWire, Oct. 17, 2016

Microsoft says speech recognition technology reaches “human parity”

CBS News, Oct. 18, 2016

Microsoft says it has a new computing method to speed up genomic sequencing

Fast Company, Oct. 18, 2016

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Katja Hofmann

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