In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Research and innovation: understanding customers and upskilling workers
“I couldn’t live without my phone!” exclaims Jhu Wan Yu. The 27-year-old event planner is like many residents in Taiwan’s busy, tech-obsessed capital, Taipei. She does almost everything online and feels staying connected is essential. “I spend more than 10…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Creating a resilient patient-centered healthcare system
Microsoft is helping organizations set a course for recovery and resiliency in an ever-changing healthcare environment. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re announcing the general availability date for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (opens in new tab) and revealing more enhanced capabilities that help organizations…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
"What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data…
Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering
Ant Rowstron Named Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fifty-three leading engineers from the UK and around the world have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession. They join an Academy on a mission to…
Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI
By the Semantic Machines research team “Easier said than done.” These four words reflect the promise of conversational AI. It takes just seconds to ask When are Megan and I both free? but much longer to find out manually from…
In the news | Quanta Magazine
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition. The 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, begins today. It may go down in history for at least two…
Awards | HTN Awards 2020
InnerEye finalists in HTN Awards 2020 for Best Health Tech Solution of the Year and Best use of AI
The HTN Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions, celebrate great technology, partnerships, teams and innovations making a difference across health and care. HTN is delighted to announce the finalists in the Awards and congratulations to all involved. On this webpage…
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing test framework
Microsoft is looking to help developers continuously fuzz-test code prior to release, via the open source OneFuzz framework. Described as a self-hosted fuzzing-as-a-service platform, OneFuzz enables developer-driven fuzzing to identify software vulnerabilites during the development process. Source code for OneFuzz…
In the news | The Batch
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters
An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. What’s new: Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework. The revision makes it possible to train models five times…