Awards | University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank Noé receives Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
Noé is a pioneer in integrating artificial intelligence with theoretical chemistry.
Using AI to assist in rare disease diagnosis
| Mandi Hall and Ashley Conard
New research from Microsoft, Drexel, and the Broad explores how generative AI could support genetic professionals in rare disease diagnosis.
祝贺微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士荣获香港科技大学荣誉大学院士称号
近日，香港科技大学举行了隆重的颁授典礼，向六位在学术界、产业界以及社会发展做出卓越贡献的杰出人士颁授荣誉大学院士称号。微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士荣获此项殊荣并受到表彰。 颁授典礼由香港科技大学校董会主席沈向洋教授及香港科技大学校长叶玉如教授共同主持。沈向洋教授在致辞中高度赞扬了获奖者在推动知识进步、服务社会和启发后人等方面所展现的杰出领导力与深远影响。 作为微软亚洲研究院的掌舵人，周礼栋博士长期...
Awards | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lidong Zhou awarded Honorary Fellowship by HKUST
In the news | Crop Monitor
Pakistan Flood Impacts on Agriculture & Food Security
A combination of heavy monsoon rains since late June, cloudbursts, and recent water releases from overflowing dams has resulted in record flooding across eastern Pakistan, with some areas recording the worst flooding in over four decades, resulting in deaths, widespread…
In the news | NBER
Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025
Watch workshop on the Economics of Transformative AI, held on September 18-19 at Stanford University. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19618 and Microsoft.
In the news | The Korea Times
IITP, Microsoft collaborate to build global network for fostering AI workers
In the news | Mongabay
How AI helps conservationists better understand and protect giraffes
Scientists have deployed artificial intelligence models to identify and re-identify endangered giraffes in Tanzania. The Wild Nature Institute partnered with Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab to launch Project GIRAFFE which uses open-source AI tools to identify and re-identify individual giraffes…
Tool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at scale
| Adam Fourney, Tyler Payne, Maya Murad, and Saleema Amershi
As agentic AI ushers in a new era marked by tool expansion, systems are converging, and complexity is rising. Microsoft Research explores the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a new standard for agent collaboration across fragmented tool ecosystems.