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Growing up off the grid paved the way for Microsoft’s chief environmental officer 

Lucas Joppa’s childhood playground was a forest. No TV. No computers. Now, he’s betting our planet’s future on technology.

Meet the Customizable Processor Speeding Up the Deep Learning Revolution 

“For data scientists, having the right tooling is critically important, and with Azure, we give data scientists an option for accelerated AI,” says Ted Way, senior program manager of Azure Machine Learning. “From a machine-learning perspective,…

IPO filing: Microsoft invested $45M in Adaptive Biotechnologies as part of universal blood test deal 

In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing dozens of diseases at once, and as part of the agreement, pledged to invest an undisclosed…

St. Jude Cloud to accelerate scientific discoveries through access to real-time clinical genome sequencing data 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital today announced clinical genome sequencing data will be available in real-time on St. Jude Cloud, the world’s largest public repository of pediatric genomics data. The first-of-its-kind initiative will provide researchers…

Nancy Baym awarded 2019 Frederick Williams Prize 

Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research was awarded the 2019 Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology. The award recognizes the major contributions and cumulative achievements of senior scholars who…

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) leads in 2019 WMT international machine translation competition 

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has achieved eight top places in the recent machine translation challenge organized by the 2019 fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19), out of the eleven tasks it undertook. Overall, there are…

Microsoft machine-learning breakthrough: Get ready for ‘significantly’ better AI translators 

Harnessing big data in pediatric research to reimagine healthcare 

For many of us, life begins in the hospital—and so does our health data. Health organizations worldwide are amassing more information than ever before from millions of patients throughout their lifetimes. Wrangling massive volumes of…

[Prior Work] Lung cancer prediction featured in NYTimes 

As search needs evolve, Microsoft makes AI tools for better search available to researchers and developers 

Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it…