In the news | The Pragmatic Engineer
Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE)
Nicole is one of the foremost experts in developer productivity, and author of the book Accelerate. She details how to think about, measure & improve developer productivity.
In the news | Github Blog
New GPT-4o Copilot code completion model available now in public preview for Copilot in VSCode
A new code completion model, GPT-4o Copilot, can now be enabled by VS Code users. This new model based on GPT-4o mini has additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages. As a result, you can…
In the news | Social Media Fails Many Users. Experts Have an Idea to Fix It
Remaking “Prosocial” Media
E. Glen Weyl and his coauthors have proposed a new "prosocial" structure for social media, where posts are flagged with the context of where they are socially accepted and users can navigate to see opposing perspectives on divisive issues.
In the news | Science News Explores
High-speed lasers write data — to last millennia — inside glass
The library, robot, laser, microscope and platters of glass are all part of a research program named Project Silica. Richard Black directs this project at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. “Project Silica is a new approach to storing data,” he…
In the news | Oceanographic
Artificial intelligence is now used to locate ghost nets in the ocean
Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a variety of marine wildlife. To…
桂晓凡，兼具“抽象派”与“现实主义”的应用科学家
编者按：人工智能技术与产业深度融合需要几步？微软亚洲研究院应用科学家桂晓凡用她的亲身经历给出了答案。 自2021年加入微软亚洲研究院以来，桂晓凡深度参与了多项人工智能技术的应用研究，从英语教育平台到电信行业，从近实时的全球碳预算到电池能源领域，她凭借扎实的技术能力和敏锐的数据洞察力，通过钻研跨领域知识以及与不同领域的专家深度合作，成功推动了人工智能技术在多个行业的落地。 如今人工智能正以前所未有的...
Microsoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
| Chris Stetkiewicz
Limited resources, geography, and economic factors present barriers to quality education for many students in India. Learn how Microsoft Research is collaborating with Physics Wallah to make AI-based tutoring more accurate, reliable, and affordable.
Over the past two decades, Microsoft Research India has achieved an extraordinary record of innovation—in areas ranging from health and education to agriculture and accessibility.
Yadong Lu, Senior Researcher; Thomas Dhome-Casanova (opens in new tab), Software Engineer; Jianwei Yang, Principal Researcher; Ahmed Awadallah, Partner Research Manager Graphic User interface (GUI) automation requires agents with the ability to understand and interact with user screens. However, using…