In the news | Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
Dr. Peter Lee: Microsoft Research & Incubations
Kevin talks with Peter Lee about critical response scientific research, deep learning and neural networks—all related to COVID-19 and Microsoft’s growing healthcare and life sciences initiative. Listen in as they also discuss the key role that public trust plays in…
In the news | Microsoft AI Lab
AI Lab: Synthetic Data Showcase
Sharing data from sensitive sources is critical to research but can put vulnerable data subjects at risk of being identified. We created an open-source pipeline that generates synthetic data to preserve privacy when sharing and analyzing sensitive datasets.
As the world becomes more complex, so too do the problems we need to solve together – so less collaboration isn’t the answer. What teams need is more collaboration, and more effective and efficient collaboration, so that everyone can contribute…
In the news | Nature
Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
In January this year, Microsoft made a major announcement: it had paid for the removal of 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among its purchases were projects to expand forests in Peru, Nicaragua and the United States,…
In the news | LinkedIn
What science is teaching us about the future of work
My job as Chief Scientist is to use science to inform how Microsoft thinks about the future of work. To be able to contribute research during this unprecedented time means a lot to me. For instance, our research on transition…
Facebook faced a great deal of criticism in September, following revelations published in the Wall Street Journal. One example was that Facebook had begun a program, called XCheck, to route public figures away from their content moderation process, to be…
讲堂 | 霍强：创新研究到底怎么做？
编者按：“创新”—— 贯穿科研工作始终，同时也是推动科学技术进步的源动力。做好创新型研究，无论是对个人科研思维的建立，还是对科研工作本身的推进，都至关重要。但是，什么样的研究才是创新型研究？又该如何做好创新型研究？或许这是每一个即将或已经步入科研工作的人都非常关注的话题。在 Ada Camp 2021 上，微软亚洲研究院首席研究员霍强以串讲书籍的新颖形式分享了关于“创新”的独到观点。“项目选题应该...
Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
| Peeyush Kumar and Ranveer Chandra
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The plants are susceptible to fertilizer…
The Microsoft Office team recently studied how to improve children's comprehension of privacy settings in order to improve our privacy consent and control experiences for children. Before making any changes, there are many user experience decisions to consider. We want…