Human beings are creatures of habit*. Our routine behaviors are repeated regularly, often without our conscious awareness. When designing for AI experiences, such as voice or assistive features, we are competing with long-standing habits that people have formed to complete tasks. For teams working in this space, changing these habits means connecting a user’s problem…
Introduction The computation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is usually abstracted as data flow graphs (DFGs) that consist of operators and the dependency between them. This representation naturally contains two levels of parallelism. The first level is the inter-operator parallelism,…
Editor's note: How can we assess a person’s language proficiency level? In addition to making assessments through objective questions, subjective scoring is also required, such as essay scoring and oral evaluation. However, subjective evaluation is often costly, and the results…
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NTT DATA Using AI Diagnostic Imaging Technology to Increase Access to Tuberculosis Examinations for 100,000 People in India
NTT DATA Corporation (opens in new tab), a leading digital business and IT services provider, in cooperation with the AI for Health1 program from Microsoft Corporation through its strategic investee company DeepTek Medical Imaging Pvt Ltd2 hereinafter referred to as "DeepTek”, in…
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Tracking the effects of glacial melting
We don’t have time for things to move at a glacial pace, especially with melting ice! Our #AIForGood research lab, @icimod, @Mila_Quebec, and @UWMadison are using #OpenData to monitor glaciers. Check it out.
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Sustainability: A year of progress and a decade of action
One year ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood announced Microsoft’s bold commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 (opens in new tab) and to remove our historic emissions by 2050. This was the beginning of Microsoft…
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One year later: The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’
A year ago, we launched the biggest commitment in Microsoft’s history to focus on the climate crisis. As Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, and I announced last January (opens in new tab), Microsoft committed to become carbon negative as a company by 2030 – meaning that by…
Full stack ahead: Pioneering quantum hardware allows for controlling up to thousands of qubits at cryogenic temperatures
| Dr. Chetan Nayak
Quantum computing offers the promise of solutions to previously unsolvable problems, but in order to deliver on this promise, it will be necessary to preserve and manipulate information that is contained in the most delicate of resources: highly entangled quantum…
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Improving the pace of vaccine distribution through technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted our health, economy, and psychosocial well-being. Public health mitigation measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large gatherings, and washing hands have demonstrated benefit in curbing the spread of infection, but have been…