Awards | Treasury Today
Adam Smith Award 2020 – Best Accounts Receivable Solution
Although most Microsoft enterprise customers pay on time, over the last few years approximately 20% of customers pay late. Microsoft’s yearly revenue is over US$100bn, and the cost of capital due to late payments represented dozens of millions of dollars…
Awards | Treasury Today
Adam Smith Award 2020 – Judges’ Choice
Technology companies are familiar with viruses which infect our systems but when the coronavirus struck this was unprecedented. As Dennis Crispin, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) Group Manager recalls, “the COVID-19 global pandemic required us to think about what it truly…
In the news | Live Mint
Now a unique machine translation tool from Hindi to Gondi
This app, developed by Microsoft Research Lab, CGNet Swara and IIIT Naya Raipur, during the lockdown, hopes to motivate youth from the Gond Adivasi community to learn the Gondi language.
In the news | VentureBeat
Researchers bring Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel into VR
If your dreams occasionally involve spreadsheets that extend endlessly in all directions, good news: Researchers have developed a virtual reality spreadsheet interface that could expand Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel files from flat screens into 3D spaces. Rather than being…
Research Collection: The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft
Getting the sound right is a crucial ingredient in natural user interfaces, immersive gaming, realistic virtual and mixed reality, and ubiquitous computing.
Adversarial robustness as a prior for better transfer learning
| Hadi Salman
Editor’s note: This post and its research are the collaborative efforts of our team, which includes Andrew Ilyas (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Logan Engstrom (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Aleksander Mądry (opens in new tab)…
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How technology is reshaping the way we farm
The oldest industry in the world is merging with the modern world as technology is helping farmers and making farms more sustainable. Farming has always been a part of Ranveer Chandra's life. When he was a kid, memories were made…
There I was, in the fall of 2015—just one week back at Microsoft after having left the company for a few years. I stared at my computer and struggled to understand how my new team, soon to be named PROSE,…
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Making repeated edits easier with IntelliCode suggestions
What if your developer tools could track your edits and learn while you are making changes? What if they could offer to do remaining edits for you? Your repeated edit experience is now enhanced by IntelliCode suggestions in Visual Studio…