In the news | Financial Times
Doing more with less: how one hospital has adapted to NHS crisis
Not all the interventions are so simple. In the radiotherapy department, oncologist Dr Raj Jena explained that when a patient comes in for curative radiotherapy it can take up to two hours to mark up the tumor in order to…
In the news | COMPLEXITY podcast
Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor…
In the news | National Academy of Inventors
Lili Qiu, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
Research Focus: Week of December 5, 2022
This special edition of Research Focus highlights some of the 100+ papers from Microsoft Research that were accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2022 – the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. In this issue, we continue to feature some…
IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data…
In the news | Data Center Dynamics
Issue 46 – The Last Data Center
Long-term data storage enters a new epoch. What will remain of the human race? We don't know how long our species will survive, and even if we can hold on for thousands more tears it is not clear that the…
对话微软CTO Kevin Scott：人工智能的未来之路
如今，从为软件开发人员生成代码到为图形设计师绘制草图，由大型语言模型驱动的人工智能系统正在改变人们的工作和创作方式。微软执行副总裁兼首席技术官 Kevin Scott 认为，未来，无论是帮助应对气候变化及儿童教育等全球挑战，还是彻底变革医疗健康、法律、材料科学甚至科幻小说等领域，这些人工智能系统的复杂度和规模都将继续增长。 近期，Kevin Scott 就人工智能对知识工作者的影响以及人工智能下一...
Awards | Microsoft Global Hackathon Executive Challenge 2022 Winner
Microsoft Global Hackathon Executive Challenge 2022 Winner
This badge denotes that the recipient was on a winning team recognized by an Executive Challenge team in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022. Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas. Winning teams were judged and…
AI+病毒学研究：跨界合作就像无影灯，减少跨领域认知阴影
编者按：在地球上，任何一种生物都摆脱不了病毒的纠缠，所有生物都会被病毒感染，例如感染细菌的噬菌体，感染阿米巴虫的米米病毒，还有感染人体的各种病毒，包括肝炎病毒、狂犬病病毒、埃博拉病毒、艾滋病病毒、新冠病毒等等。经过多年的研究，人类是否认清了病毒的本质？病毒究竟从何而来，又将去往何处？人类能否真正消灭病毒？它与人类只是敌对关系吗？AI+病毒学的跨界研究能否追本溯源？ 近期，来自西湖大学生命科学学院的...