Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft is open sourcing and integrating some updates it it has made in deep-learning models used for natural-language processing. On January 21, the company announced it is making available to developers these optimizations by integrating…
Nachi Nagappan has been selected to receive the 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award for his “outstanding contributions to empirical software engineering and data-driven software development.” The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have…
One of the most popular deep learning models used for natural language processing is BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Due to the significant computation required, inferencing BERT at high scale can be extremely costly and…
Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for ‘safe infrastructure programming’ under the banner Project Verona.
Until now, AI classifications have been out of reach for most local government stakeholders across both the developed and developing world. Leveraging AI techniques has meant bringing in specialized cooks and hardware, and these barriers…
One of the more interesting announcements at Microsoft’s 2019 Ignite conference was Azure Arc, a new management tool for hybrid cloud application infrastructures. Building on Azure concepts, Arc is designed to allow you to manage…
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on…
