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Delivering information and eliminating bottlenecks with CDC’s COVID-19 assessment bot
In a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not only important to deliver medical care but to also provide information to help people make decisions and prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. Microsoft is helping with this challenge by offering…
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft expand partnership to decode COVID-19 immune response and provide open data access
SEATTLE and REDMOND, Wash. — March 20, 2020 — Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ADPT) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) on Friday announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19.…
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Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are studying how the human immune system reacts to the coronavirus
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are working together to study how the human immune system responds to the COVID-19 coronavirus. By understanding the immune signature, meaning how humans are responding to the disease, the companies hope to speed the process of…
Podcast: Enabling Rural Communities to Participate in Crowdsourcing, with Dr. Vivek Seshadri
On this podcast, Vivek talks about what motivated him to focus on research that can help under-served communities, and in particular, about Project Karya, a new platform to provide digital work to rural communities. The word “Karya” literally means “work”…
In the news | Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Blog
Health Bot – Instance Management and Version Control Best Practices
The Microsoft Health Bot Service is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that is a perfect compliment to any Patient Engagement Strategy. The Healthcare Bot supports common healthcare scenarios such as Review of Symptom Triage, Appointment Scheduling using FHIR…
In the news | Microsoft Research
Project Acoustics: Making Waves with Triton
Project Acoustics is now available for all game developers and sound designers to use. It employs the Triton technology developed in Microsoft Research for accurate sound propagation using wave physics.
Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani
Dr. Behnaz Arzani is a senior researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at MSR, and she feels your pain. At least, that is, if you’re a network operator trying to troubleshoot an incident in a datacenter. Her research is…
Training deep control policies for the real world
| Rogerio Bonatti, Ratnesh Madaan, Vibhav Vineet, Sebastian Scherer, and Ashish Kapoor
Humans subconsciously use perception-action loops to do just about everything, from walking down a crowded sidewalk to scoring a goal in a community soccer league. Perception-action loops—using sensory input to decide on appropriate action in a continuous real time loop…
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Microsoft and Google join forces on Covid-19 dataset
Microsoft Research and Google Cloud have joined forces as part of an initiative to open up datasets that help researchers combat the Covid-19 novel coronavirus.