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Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Our work was highlighted in the annual “Research at Microsoft 2021” newsletter: “As ML techniques and approaches advance, so does the potential for applications to empower individuals in the workplace and beyond does, too. Research teams are leveraging few-shot learning…
Awards | Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021
Microsoft Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Challenge Winner
Kenji Takeda won either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Executive Challenge. The Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines
Here’s a cooking story unlike any you’ve heard before. That’s because the chefs are chemists, the ingredients are molecules, and the main course is a new medication designed to defeat illness. At least, that’s Luca Finelli’s snackable description to explain…
In the news | Novartis
The art of drug design in a technological age
Novartis is collaborating with Microsoft to apply machine learning to medicinal chemistry — part of an effort to leverage AI to bring treatments to patients more efficiently. There’s a misconception about drug hunting that can mask one of the biggest…
In the news | Fast Company
ImmuneCODE named to Fast Company “Health: Next Big Things in Tech” list
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech – For using data to create a test for past COVID-19 infection | The tech giant teamed up with Adaptive Biotech to create ImmuneCODE, an open-source database of immune responses to COVID-19, which they used to…
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Maintaining confidentiality and preserving trust
| Victor Ruehle, Robert Sim, Sergey Yekhanin, Nishanth Chandran, Melissa Chase, Daniel Jones, Kim Laine, Boris Köpf, Jaime Teevan, Jim Kleewein, and Saravan Rajmohan
Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous opportunities to increase productivity. However, ML systems are only as good as the quality of the data that informs the training of ML models. And training ML models requires a significant amount of data, more…
Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognition
| Daniela Massiceti, Cecily Morrison, Katja Hofmann, and Ed Cutrell
Object recognition systems have made spectacular advances in recent years, but they rely on training datasets with thousands of high-quality, labelled examples per object category. Learning new objects from only a few examples could open the door to many new…
In the news | Microsoft Research Summit
Research Talk at Microsoft Research Summit 2021
We’re entering a technological era that is all about “me”—from personalized shopping recommendations to avatars, and even bespoke healthcare treatments. Deeper inspection of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, however, reveals that “me” is not really me. The coarse-grained ways that AI…
First ever Microsoft Research Summit explores science and technology aimed at big challenges
| Ashley Llorens
For 30 years, Microsoft Research has brought together great minds from around the world to take on the biggest research challenges facing society. As we enter our fourth decade, the need for collaborative research—and the opportunities it presents—have never been…