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Connecting the Healthcare Agent Orchestrator to your Electronic Health Record and Microsoft Fabric
From childbirth to chronic disease, India’s rural healthcare workers face it all. Now, they have a tool that listens—and answers—in the languages they use every day.
| Kathleen Sullivan and Amanda Craig Deckard
Generative AI presents a unique challenge and opportunity to reexamine governance practices for the responsible development, deployment, and use of AI. To advance thinking in this space, Microsoft has tapped into the experience and knowledge of experts across domains—from genome…
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from Science and Industry
| Kathleen Sullivan and Amanda Craig Deckard
In the introductory episode of this new series, host Kathleen Sullivan and Senior Director Amanda Craig Deckard explore Microsoft’s efforts to draw on the experience of other domains to help advance the role of AI testing and evaluation as a…
Learning from other domains to advance AI evaluation and testing
| Amanda Craig Deckard and Chad Atalla
As generative AI becomes more capable and widely deployed, familiar questions from the governance of other transformative technologies have resurfaced. Which opportunities, capabilities, risks, and impacts should be evaluated? Who should conduct evaluations, and at what stages of the technology…
Awards | HCI INTERNATIONAL
The recipient of the ‘HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT’ for 2025 is Susan Dumais
The HCII2025 Conference is proud to announce Susan Dumais as the 2025 recipient of the 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT'. Susan is a pioneering researcher whose work has reshaped information retrieval, search engines, and human-computer interaction, while her innovations have…
FEA-Bench：首个仓库级新功能实现基准，让大模型更懂软件开发
编者按：当前，大语言模型在代码生成领域已展现出惊人的能力，但能否胜任真实软件开发中的“新增功能实现”任务，仍是一个关键未解的问题。对此，微软亚洲研究院与北京大学联合发布了首个专注于仓库级新功能实现的基准测试 FEA-Bench，填补了评估体系中的重要空白。该测试集构建于真实开源项目的 pull request （合并请求），覆盖1400多个高质量任务，系统评估了主流大模型在复杂工程任务中的表现。F...
Breaking bonds, breaking ground: Advancing the accuracy of computational chemistry with deep learning
| Rianne van den Berg, Jan Hermann, Christopher Bishop, and Paola Gori Giorgi
Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more.
Scientific research is a continuous journey fueled by curiosity and collaboration, a conversation between scientists that often crosses continents and spans decades, with each new discovery inspired by and expanding on the work of others. The story of density functional…