In the news | ETH Zurich
Man and Machine – Panel discussion at WEF Annual Meeting 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere today – with applications in almost all fields of modern science. From robotics and biology to chemical engineering and healthcare, applying AI positions most scientific fields for progress. What exactly is AI? Are…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft is at HIMSS 2019: Champions of Health Unite
Every year, the health industry’s brightest innovators come to HIMSS to educate, intrigue, and inspire attendees with fresh ideas and creative solutions to some of the most prevalent and persistent challenges in modern health. This year, I am excited that…
In the news | Forbes
The Hospital Will See You Now
An array of artificial intelligence applications track the occupancy of every bed in every department at every second, and use predictive modeling to anticipate when the next ICU bed or operating room will become available in the next hour—or, better…
Email overload: Using machine learning to manage messages, commitments
As email continues to be not only an important means of communication but also an official record of information and a tool for managing tasks, schedules, and collaborations, making sense of everything moving in and out of our inboxes will…
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) explores how we can harness the power of modern machine cognition capabilities to capture the accumulated knowledge as recorded in the academic publications and patent filings of the last two hundred years. Since MAG launched in…
In the news | Data Skeptic
Text World and Word Embedding Lower Bounds
Text World is an engine that simulates text adventure games. Developers are encouraged to try out their reinforcement learning skills building agents that can programmatically interact with the generated text adventure games.
Awards | National Academy of Engineering
Paul England elected to National Academy of Engineering
Paul England was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for defining the hardware foundations of secure computing, Trusted Platform Module, and secure enclaves, and for conceiving the darknet. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft Healthcare reveals more of its strategy with new cloud and AI products for hospitals
Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals through team collaboration, bots and health record sharing. The new products are the latest step toward Microsoft’s broader healthcare ambitions,…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Lighting up healthcare data with FHIR®: Announcing the Azure API for FHIR
In the last several years we’ve seen fundamental transformation in healthcare data management, but the biggest, and perhaps most important shift, has been in how healthcare organizations think about cloud technology and their most sensitive health data. Healthcare leaders have…