In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud
Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal engineer Mark Marron, who describes…
Where’s my stuff? Developing AI with help from people who are blind or low vision to meet their needs
| Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Ed Cutrell, and Lida Theodorou
Microsoft AI for Accessibility is funding the ORBIT research project, which is enlisting the help of people who are blind or low vision to build a new dataset. People who are blind or low vision can contribute to the project…
In the news | CIFAR
Microsoft partners with CIFAR on AI & COVID-19 Catalyst Grants
Microsoft Research & Microsoft AI for Health are pleased to partner with CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) on their AI & COVID-19 Catalyst Grants initiative. The initiative brings together industry, non-profits, governments, researchers and clinicians working on innovative, high-risk,…
Awards | ACM
2020 Knuth Prize Awarded to Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist, received the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize for fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science. Dwork is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists of her generation. Her research has transformed several fields, most notably…
In the news | Middle East & Africa News Center
Ministry of Public Health Introduces Covid-19 Health Bot to Citizens in Lebanon
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Lebanon has announced the roll out of a Covid-19 Health bot solution for citizens. The Bot has been developed by trakMD in collaboration with Microsoft, the Epidemiological Surveillance and E-Health teams of MoPH…
In the news | The GitHub Blog
Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19
COVID-19 brought a sudden—and global—need for people to stay home. This pressed many organizations to support remote work wherever possible, changing the routines and environment of millions of people in a matter of days. This shift means developers and other…
VROOM: Giving body to telepresence
| Brennan Jones
Editor's Note: This post was written collaboratively by Brennan Jones, Sunny Zhang, Priscilla Wong, and Sean Rintel and told from the first-person perspective of Brennan Jones. One of my life missions is to connect people, and I’ve been pursuing this…
Quantum speedups for unstructured problems: Solving two twenty-year-old problems
| Robin Kothari
One of the goals of quantum computing research is to understand which problems quantum computers can solve faster than classical (non-quantum) computers and how big the speedup can be. Grover’s algorithm and Shor’s algorithm are two famous quantum algorithms that…
In the news | National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Interactive Tool: Catalyzing Policing Reform with Data Interactive
Nationwide protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd have underscored the urgency for rethinking policing in the nation, and many of the changes will need to happen at the local level. Understanding patterns of policing through analysis…