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‘Colorblind’ Tech is Killing Us: Why COVID-19 Tech Must Focus on Equity
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 120,000 people in the United States and debilitated millions more since arriving on our shores. While anyone can contract the virus, there is a pattern to who gets sick and dies from…
Hi there, Steven from the Soundscape Team here again. One of the most common questions we receive in customer feedback is how Microsoft Soundscape appears to announce callouts slightly differently when travelling in a vehicle or on public transport compared…
Microsoft Research EMEA and Latin America PhD Awards springboard new ideas across intercontinental research
| Clare Morgan
The 2020 EMEA and Latin America PhD Award recipients are undertaking research central to advancing today’s technology—training artificial agents to learn faster in new situations, designing new scalable machine learning algorithms for continual and federated learning, and several other compelling…
With their work-from-home guidance stretching into another month, Information Workers (IWs) are facing numerous challenges with their ability to communicate effectively with their teams. Since collaboration is central to IWs daily productivity and engagement, a team of user researchers studied…
Enhancing your photos through artificial intelligence
The amount of visual data we accumulate around the world is mind boggling. However, not all the images are captured by high-end DSLR cameras, and very often they suffer from imperfections. It is of tremendous benefit to save those degraded…
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New technique may enable all-optical data-centre networks
A new technique that synchronises the clocks of computers in under a billionth of a second can eliminate one of the hurdles for the deployment of all-optical networks, potentially leading to more efficient data centres, according to a new study…
By Judy Hanwen Shen, AI Resident Amid this era of social distancing, people often say that there’s only three days of the week now: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. But, actually, there’s also Thursday, the day we have our weekly AI…
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Microsoft Azure will become the preferred cloud platform for Johns Hopkins inHealth precision medicine initiative
On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) announced a five-year relationship centered on Microsoft’s Azure and analytical tools that will support new discoveries as part of JHM’s inHealth precision medicine initiative. The work will bring together JHM’s leading…
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AI model uses smartphone location data to predict power grid usage
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes into account data from geographical…