Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
As the FCC is poised to deliver more than $20 billion in federal subsidies to internet service providers in the coming years aimed at expanding broadband access to unserved parts of the country, it’s critical…
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a bigger and more central part of the infrastructure of healthcare. We see this as a historic shift that motivates us to think hard about how to ensure that, in…
Microsoft researchers are developing a transfer learning-based approach for adapting general question answer models to documents in specialized domains. Their new demonstration system can answer questions against Welcome to Canada, the Canadian government’s guidebook for…
Computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn explains how her team is studying embryonic stem cells to gain a new understanding of the biological programs that power life — and develop ‘living software’ that could transform medicine, agriculture…
Bosque is described as a programming language that is “simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.” As a supporter of technology that is “simple”, “obvious” and “easy”, I was interested…
Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can unlock…
A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data.
Big data analytics is no joke — research firm Research and Markets anticipates the segment will be worth upwards of $40.6 billion by 2024. Perhaps that’s why it’s not surprising that ahead of Inspire 2019…
