Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Development Seed and Microsoft AI for Earth are launching PEARL, an AI-accelerated platform for fast land cover mapping, for experimental use. PEARL represents a new approach to combining human intelligence and scalable AI for fast,…
Azure Health Bot empowers developers in healthcare organizations to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. It combines built-in medical intelligence with natural language capabilities to understand clinical terminology and can…
Two leading visionaries in the fields of medicine and Artificial Intelligence for health – Mayo Clinic Platform President Dr. John Halamka and Microsoft Research and Incubations Corporate VP Peter Lee – explain how collaboration and…
Abigail Sellen is elected as one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world’s leading…
Microsoft—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—shows how a giant company can push change across a wide variety of disciplines, from climate to energy to health to education.
Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.
At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack. Many coronavirus patients seem to get better at first, then rapidly decline and are overtaken by an…
To use artificial intelligence to support frontline clinicians interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) as a way to diagnose Covid-19 and predict the likely outcomes for patients. Although Covid-19 can be diagnosed using throat and nose swabs,…
The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with researchers at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard’s…
During the pandemic, we have seen dramatic shifts in technology usage: rapid acceleration of at-home shopping, a transition from in-person to online learning, and much more. In healthcare, telehealth visits have jumped more than 150…
