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Video analytics at the edge, an ideal technology for 5G cloud monetization
Creating a programmable software infrastructure for telecommunication operations promises to reduce both the capital expenditure (CAPEX) and the operational expenses (OPEX) of the 5G telecommunications operators. What is exciting to many of us who work in this space is that…
春风化雨，一路同行：高校老师们的“铸星”故事
微软亚洲研究院祝老师们节日快乐！ 9 月 9 日，2021 年铸星论坛在微软亚洲研究院成功举办，来自国内知名高校与研究所的青年学者们作为“铸星计划”候选人齐聚一堂，展示了自己的科研设想，并与微软亚洲研究院研究员、其他学者深入交流。 本次铸星论坛首次与“铸星计划”星友会活动结合举办。过去十余年中，“铸星计划”中已走出近 170 名优秀学者。2019 年，“铸星计划”星友会正式成立，星友们在此汇聚，交...
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How closely related are healthcare costs and quality in the U.S.?
In the world of consumerism, we often think that cost and quality are related: You get what you pay for. However, that’s not necessarily the case, as Jim Weinstein, MD, discovered during the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which he founded –-…
In the past year, leaf blowers, barking dogs, and fussy children have all become staples of our online meetings. This is a case where technology has seemed to come to the rescue, and one of the more impressive AI features…
Suggestions for hybrid work
Hybrid work “is the future” for Microsoft and many of our customers. Hybrid work also presents new challenges not present in remote work. Fortunately, we can draw on pre-pandemic research on hybrid work, extrapolation from our research on all-remote work,…
What is hybrid?
Generally, ‘hybrid’ refers to a mix of collocated (in office or facility) and non-collocated work or workers. That mix can be within a single person or job, or it can be across individuals in a team, workforce, or group of…
Hybrid meetings guide
Hybrid meetings – meetings in which there is a mix of remote and in-person participants – aren’t a new phenomenon. Microsoft’s approach to hybrid meetings is informed by our long history of videoconferencing and workplace research, especially that on hybrid…
Microsoft Teams is a communication platform [1]. It integrates meet, chat, call and collaborate in one place. The application updates multiple times a month [2], with additional new features and iterative improvements to existing features. To ensure high quality user…
Microsoft Researchers Propose a Decentralized System for Anti-Piracy Incentivization Campaigns
Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets for present-day companies, especially in the software, movie, gaming, and digital publishing industries. Anti-piracy is a long-lasting and heavily invested effort because piracy impacts the fundamental business models of these industries.…