In the news | Univ of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics

Univ of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics, 2025 Regional Progress Forum - Strengthening the Foundation for Shared Economic Opportunities and Growth across Western Pennsylvania.

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By Advait Sarkar, Senior Researcher; Sean Rintel, Senior Principal Research Manager; Leon Reicherts, Researcher; Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Researcher; Pratik Ghosh, Senior Research Designer; Richard Banks, Principal Design Manager; Payod Panda, Design Engineering Researcher; Martin Grayson, Principal Research Software Development Engineer In…

In the news | Github Blog

Finding the right code quickly is critical. After listening to the community’s feedback, we rolled out a new Copilot embedding model that makes code search in VS Code faster, lighter on memory, and far more accurate. This means retrieving the…

Awards | University of Wisconsin–Madison

Noé is a pioneer in integrating artificial intelligence with theoretical chemistry.

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| 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.

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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...

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Awards | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

In the news | Crop Monitor

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

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.