Producing great product insights is bolstered by understanding what motivates stakeholders to learn, how they retain information, how to build on prior knowledge, and what experiences can activate behaviors. This helps ensure that research is acted upon and encourages colleagues…
In the news | Volastra
Volastra Therapeutics Partners with Microsoft to Advance Metastatic Cancer Research
Collaboration will integrate Microsoft Azure AI and Volastra’s insights into tumor biology to develop machine learning tools to detect drivers of tumor growth and predict metastatic risk.
A responsible approach to innovation
The intersection of desirability, feasibility, and viability is seen as the sweet spot for innovation; these attributes are the cornerstones of Design Thinking. But what else should be considered? Here are some ideas to approach innovation responsibly, so you can…
In the news | KUOW
Seattle Now: A chance to change the office
If you’re one of the many white-collar workers who left the office behind a year ago, you’re probably wondering just what’s in store when you go back. We get some insight on lessons learned from a year of remote work…
In the news | The Hill
Funding Black and Latinx community institutions is the key to vaccine equity
When our team at Duke Health launched a bilingual COVID-19 symptom monitoring program last March, we noticed over 90 percent of participants enrolling were white. We quickly started collaborating with nonprofit design studio IDEO.org on the question: how can we…
Factorized layers revisited: Compressing deep networks without playing the lottery
| Misha Khodak, Neil Tenenholtz, Lester Mackey, and Nicolo Fusi
From BiT (928 million parameters (opens in new tab)) to GPT-3 (175 billion parameters (opens in new tab)), state-of-the-art machine learning models are rapidly growing in size. With the greater expressivity and easier trainability of these models come skyrocketing training…
Advancing organizational science using network machine learning to measure innovation in the workplace
| Carolyn Buractaon, Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Neha Shah, and Jonathan Larson
Is innovation another loss due to the global COVID-19 pandemic? Indicators reveal challenges to overcome—as well as opportunities to build on our collective experience gained (opens in new tab) in the last year. Measuring collaboration using network machine learning provides…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?
Exclusive research and expert insights into a year of work like no other reveal urgent trends leaders should consider as hybrid work unfolds. We’re on the brink of a disruption as great as last year’s sudden shift to remote work:…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
How virtual health is transforming care delivery
COVID-19 caused a massive acceleration in the use of virtual health services and has helped expand access to care at a time when the ongoing pandemic has severely restricted patients’ ability to see their doctors. Virtual health technology is enabling…