In the news | Search Engine Journal
Bing is Now Utilizing BERT at a Larger Scale Than Google
Bing revealed today that it has been using BERT in search results before Google, and it’s also being used at a larger scale. Google’s use of BERT in search results is currently affecting 10% of search results in the US,…
In the news | Search Engine Land
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
Bing has been using BERT to improve the quality of search results since April, Microsoft has stated. The transformer models are now applied to every Bing query globally.
In the news | ZDNet
Here’s how Microsoft is looking to make search smarter and more natural
Microsoft is continuing to evolve its unified Microsoft Search service. The latest pieces it is integrating into Microsoft Search involve its 'Project Turing' deep-learning work, as well as advances it is making around semantic meaning and intent. Microsoft Search, for…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Bing delivers its largest improvement in search experience using Azure GPUs
Over the last couple of years, deep learning has become widely adopted across the Bing search stack and powers a vast number of our intelligent features. We use natural language models to improve our core search algorithm’s understanding of a…
In the news | BusinessLine
Ola, Microsoft partner to collect air quality data in Delhi-NCR
The project is expected to collect millions of data points over one year to complete the spectrum of variation in Delhi’s air-pollution. Ride-hailing company Ola on Monday said it has entered with Microsoft Research to measure street level air quality…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Accelerate IoMT on FHIR with new Microsoft OSS Connector
Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem of FHIR® for developers with a new tool to securely ingest, normalize, and persist Protected Health Information (PHI) from IoMT devices in the cloud. Continuing our commitment to remove the barriers of interoperability in healthcare,…
ACM杰出会员谢幸：让你的每一项工作都经得起时间的考验
编者按：在刚刚过去的10月底，一年一度的 ACM 杰出会员评选结果正式揭晓，微软亚洲研究院首席研究员谢幸因在计算机科学领域的突出贡献成功入选，而在上周五开幕的 ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 国际会议上，谢幸与研究团队在十年前发表的论文“Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories”又获得了“十年影响力论文奖”。 又是一个快乐的周末...
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In the news | Microsoft Bay Area Blog
Microsoft’s participation in AfroTech demonstrates its commitment to include everyone
At Microsoft we talk a lot about being intentional and building a workforce that reflects the communities where we work around the world. That intention was on full display last week in Oakland as Microsoft once again sponsored and actively…