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Empathy and innovation: How Microsoft’s cultural shift is leading to new product development
The young Microsoft software engineer had just moved to the U.S. and was trying her best to stay in close touch with her parents back home, calling them on Skype every week. But their internet connection in India was poor,…
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This is Microsoft’s AI pipeline, from research to reality
On the most fundamental level, ensuring that Microsoft AI innovations benefit Microsoft customers is about making sure that research and product teams aren't siloed off from each other.
Everything you always wanted to know about extreme classification (but were afraid to ask)
Varma’s team published a paper that exploded the number of choices that could be considered from a search engine from five thousand to ten million. This changed the nature of the game and led to the establishment of a new…
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The Hospital Will See You Now
An array of artificial intelligence applications track the occupancy of every bed in every department at every second, and use predictive modeling to anticipate when the next ICU bed or operating room will become available in the next hour—or, better…
Email overload: Using machine learning to manage messages, commitments
As email continues to be not only an important means of communication but also an official record of information and a tool for managing tasks, schedules, and collaborations, making sense of everything moving in and out of our inboxes will…
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) explores how we can harness the power of modern machine cognition capabilities to capture the accumulated knowledge as recorded in the academic publications and patent filings of the last two hundred years. Since MAG launched in…
In the news | Data Skeptic
Text World and Word Embedding Lower Bounds
Text World is an engine that simulates text adventure games. Developers are encouraged to try out their reinforcement learning skills building agents that can programmatically interact with the generated text adventure games.
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Microsoft for Healthcare: technology and collaboration for better experiences, insights and care
Microsoft's technology and partnerships are helping empower care teams, improve clinical and operational outcomes and advance precision healthcare, with a specific focus on putting people's privacy at the center.
Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
Episode 62, February 6, 2019 - Haiyan talks about her unique “brain hack” approach to the human-centered design process, and discusses a wide range of projects, from the connected play experience of Zanzibar, to Fizzyo, which turns laborious breathing exercises…