Awards | Allen School News
Karin Strauss honored with ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
Karin Strauss, a principal research manager at Microsoft and affiliate professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Allen School professor Luis Ceze, (opens in new tab) have earned the 2020 Maurice Wilkes Award (opens…
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PRA Enhances COVID-19 Monitoring Program with Integration of Microsoft Healthcare Bot Service
RALEIGH, N.C., June 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRAH) announced today the enhancement of its commercial Health Harmony COVID-19 Monitoring Program with the integration of the Microsoft Healthcare Bot service.
Awards | ACM SIGCOMM
Venkat Padmanabhan among those recognized with the SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award
The SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award (opens in new tab) is awarded to an institution or individual(s) to recognize the development of a networking system that has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking. Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing…
XGLUE: Expanding cross-lingual understanding and generation with tasks from real-world scenarios
| Nan Duan, Yaobo Liang, and Daniel Campos
What we can teach a model to do with natural language is dictated by the availability of data. Currently, we have a lot of labeled data for very few languages, making it difficult to train models to accomplish question answering,…
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Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
SEATTLE and REDMOND, Wash. — June 11, 2020 — Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ADPT) on Thursday launched ImmuneCODE with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to begin sharing one of the largest, most detailed views of the immune response to COVID-19 in…
Hello everyone, Steven from the Microsoft Soundscape team here. I lead the Quality Assurance for Soundscape, and today I’m going to give you some insight into what this involves. We often get asked: “How do you test Microsoft Soundscape?” What…
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Chatbot provides new route for Scottish patients to access Covid-19 information and support
People across Scotland who need help and information about coronavirus can now get help using an online chatbot from NHS 24, the organisation that provides Scotland’s 111 service.
Earlier this year, a novel coronavirus rendered online teaching a norm. With “classroom” experiences poor, effective interactions between teachers and students difficult to maintain, and teaching quality easily affected by network conditions, online teaching has created many difficulties for teachers…