Awards | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch receive USENIX 2021 Test of Time Award
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch received the USENIX Test of Time Award at FAST 2021. The award recognizes their paper from 2007, A five-year study of file-system metadata, which has had a lasting impact on the File and…
In the news | Adaptive Biotech
New T-Detect COVID test shows the power of combining Adaptive’s Immune Medicine Platform with Microsoft’s AI and machine
Imagine if a simple blood test could provide accurate and early diagnosis of thousands of different diseases simultaneously? That is no easy task, but it may be possible using new technology that can leverage how our body naturally detects diseases…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
A promising step forward on disinformation
“What can we do?” Those words continued to echo as I returned home from the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2019. The director of a major news organization asked me that question point blank after we reviewed several deepfake…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Essential IT: How Providence uses data to care for COVID-19 patients
B.J. Moore knew he had to stick to his gut. He had just made a crucial choice as the new chief information officer at Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems, spanning 51 hospitals and 1,085 clinics in seven…
Designer-centered reinforcement learning
| Batu Aytemiz, Mikhail Jacob, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann
In video games, nonplayer characters, bots, and other game agents help bring a digital world and its story to life. They can help make the mission of saving humanity feel urgent, transform every turn of a corner into a gamer’s…
Developing usable and valuable features is not much use if the feature is going to be turned off as soon as it hits the enterprise environment. They implored us to think of the stakeholder cycles that each new feature must…
In the news | Microsoft Customer Stories
Children’s Mercy Kansas City accelerates research into pediatric disease with Microsoft Genomics
Children’s Mercy Kansas City, an award-winning hospital and research institute, manages one of the leading genome sequencing centers in the United States. To better support researchers, Children’s Mercy is working with Microsoft and Pacific Biosciences to create a scalable, sharable,…
In the news | WIRED
A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them. It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now…
In the news | The Economist
AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
But as the software improves, access to material gets harder.