Hello there, my name is Amos Miller and I’m the Product Lead for Microsoft Soundscape. In this piece, I want to share what I do when going out for a walk with my guide dog Saigon, for us both to…
Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein
Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually interesting in academic circles. But that didn’t deter Dr. Philip Bernstein, now a Distinguished Scientist in MSR’s Data Management,…
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Prazosin Might Be A Treatment For COVID-19. More Data Is Urgently Needed
Amidst all of the unproven and ineffective treatments being promoted for coronavirus treatment, a new possibility has just emerged. Scientists around the globe are devoting enormous resources to trying to develop new treatments for COVID-19, the pandemic that is sweeping…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
How international health care organizations are using bots to help fight COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across Europe earlier this year, the number of calls to Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen quickly ramped up. The organization, which provides emergency care for about one-third of Denmark’s population, saw calls to its emergency…
In the news | New York Times
You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.
Advances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute for human creativity.
In response to the rapid publications on COVID-19, Microsoft Academic Services have made several changes in the way scholarly articles are processed.
Bringing virtual reality to people who are blind with an immersive sensory-based system
| Ed Cutrell and Eyal Ofek
Virtual reality (VR) is an incredibly exciting way to experience computing, providing users with intuitive and immersive means of interacting with information that attempts to mirror the way we naturally experience the world around us. In the past few years,…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines
In a [study] published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals to detect fake news.…
Happy and productive at work: Predicting opportune moments to switch tasks and take breaks
| Shamsi Iqbal, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, and Jaime Teevan
Consider the last time you struggled to complete a task at work. Perhaps you got stuck trying to solve a tricky problem, unable to break out of that unproductive state, or maybe you were so engrossed in an activity unrelated…