Post Covid-19 Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has stress-tested cities in ways nearly unimaginable, from shuttering retail to depleting crucial tax revenues that will cripple public service provision for years to come, to fundamentally disrupting the concept of commuting for millions of people.
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Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate the next generation of the Terra platform for health and life science research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 11, 2021 — On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through…
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Inner Eye AI identifies tumours to speed up treatment of cancer
A hospital in Cambridge is the first to use artificial intelligence technology developed by Microsoft to treat cancer patients faster, helping to cut the treatment backlog and save lives. Addenbrooke’s is the first hospital in the world to use Inner…
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Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
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AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark
When SuperGLUE was introduced, there was a nearly 20-point gap between the best-performing model and human performance on the leaderboard. But as of early January, two models — one from Microsoft called DeBERTa and a second from Google called T5…
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Introducing Azure Health Bot—an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot with new functionality
Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with patient engagement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Walgreens, Premera, and Providence are just a few of…
Many researchers have documented the importance of color in shaping perceptions, providing context, and helping users connect with an application. We took a more focused approach recently in examining color as relates to icon sets. Our goal was to understand how color might affect user comprehension, efficiency, and satisfaction. At stake: The satisfaction of long-time product users who…