Awards | Green Good Design
Project Eclipse Chicago deployment recognized with a Green Good Design Award 2022
Project Eclipse recognized with a 2022 Green Good Design Award for their Eclipse Air Sensor Transit Shelters Chicago Deployment. In July 2021, the Project Eclipse team at Microsoft Urban Innovation Research began a partnership with JCDecaux Chicago, LLC and team…
In the news | Global Music Vault
Elire Group collaborates with Microsoft on a trial for long-term archival storage
Elire Group, with Global Music Vault, is dedicated to sourcing, safeguarding, and celebrating the world’s most valuable music, where the mission is to pass on the world’s music to the next generations forever. Microsoft is using recent discoveries in ultrafast…
DoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow
| Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
Identifying causal effects is an integral part of scientific inquiry. It helps us understand everything from educational outcomes to the effects of social policies to risk factors for diseases. Questions of cause-and-effect are also critical for the design and data-driven…
Podcast: A Random Walk from Complexity Theory to Machine Learning. With Dr. Neeraj Kayal and Dr. Ravishankar Krishnaswamy
Sridhar Vedantham: Welcome to the MSR India podcast. In this podcast, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, a researcher at the MSR India lab, speaks to Neeraj Kayal. Neeraj is also a researcher at MSR India and works on problems related to or at…
In the news | Microsoft News Center
AGRA and Microsoft extend their partnership to support digital agricultural transformation
DAVOS, Switzerland: May 24, 2022 – AGRA and leading technology provider Microsoft, have announced expanding their partnership to advance digital agricultural transformation in Africa. The partnership, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding on the margins of the World Economic Forum…
In the news | Fortune
The value of a data science degree, as told by Microsoft’s chief data scientist
Juan M. Lavista Ferres learned to code when he was 8 years old, and a few decades later his childhood interest in programming and technology evolved into a fruitful career—including a current stint at Microsoft of more than 13 years
对话 2021 微软学者：青年从不缺少描摹未来的潜力
编者按：“微软学者”奖学金是微软亚洲研究院自 1999 年启动的一项面向亚太地区计算机科学以及相关专业和交叉学科的优秀博士生的项目，旨在发掘优秀、有潜力的低年级博士生。 距离 2022 年“微软学者”奖学金申请截止仅有 16 天，我们带来了与往届“微软学者”的对话，期待他们的科研经历与成长感悟，能给予同样在科研之路上探索的你许多鼓励与勇气。 “微软学者”们如何选择与探索自己的研究领域？怎样的科研习...
Improve edge-device AI efficiency
Machine learning models are increasingly running on edge hardware, such as mobile phones or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Motivations include protection of private data and avoidance of networking latency, for example with applications that recognize speech. Ensuring efficient inference…
Emit less carbon from AI
Multiple activities are involved in developing and using machine learning models, including selection of model architectures and algorithms, hyperparameter tuning, training on existing datasets, and making predictions on new data (aka inference). Optimizing results across these activities involves many complex…