Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
“We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself,” says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being…
After the success of the punch-hole front-facing camera the next major development for selfie cameras is fully under-display cameras, where the cameras are behind a transparent OLED screen which would still work as a normal…
Your code is safe and sound in the Arctic At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code…
Today, Microsoft released the preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR—a fully managed feature of the Azure API for FHIR. The connector empowers health teams with the technology for a scalable end-to-end pipeline to ingest,…
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain,…
UCLH and UCL researchers are working with Microsoft to see if chest imaging data can identify better who should shield in potential future COVID-19 outbreaks. With concerns that current shielding guidelines miss out on people…
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that has been deployed internally…
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding…
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It’s a free service from Microsoft…
