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Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at Scale chiefly bolstered the search…
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Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued.…
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Microsoft’s Project HSD is all about holographic storage for the cloud
It's possible thanks to modern smartphone cameras. Microsoft is looking beyond flash storage and hard drives to handle the seemingly unstoppable demand for cloud storage. Yesterday at its Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSD (via ZDNet), a new research initiative that’s exploring…
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Microsoft to engage with customers to further develop Turing natural language models
As part of the companywide AI at Scale initiative, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it plans to begin working with select customers to further develop its Turing natural language representation (NLR) models. AI at Scale, which was announced…
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Microsoft Is Trapping Bugs in Robotic Smart Traps to Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they're looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes bug activity for signs…
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Microsoft: Here’s how smartphone camera tech helps create this new holographic storage
Project Holographic Storage Device works on new holographic storage device for 'warm' data in the cloud. Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale data that has a potential…
Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit: Democratizing medical imaging AI
| Javier Alvarez-Valle and Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD
For over a decade, the Project InnerEye team at Microsoft Research Cambridge has been developing state-of-the-art machine learning methods for the automatic, quantitative analysis of three-dimensional medical images. An important application is to assist clinicians for image preparation and planning…
In search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
| Benn Thomsen, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Ant Rowstron
Data storage has always been a key tenet of compute, and with the massive growth in cloud compute, the demand for cloud data storage has opened an avenue for both revisiting prior technologies and developing new ones. It is projected…
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Microsoft Research holographic storage could be the cloud’s future
In addition to living in a digital age, our lives have also started to revolve around clouds, that is, cloud storage and services. This elusive and ephemeral concept, however, still needs to be tethered to physical realities and limited by…