In the news | TheNextWeb
Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…
With the COVID-19 situation continuing, we continue to see challenges with in-person support that in regular times would be provided by a sighted guide or a Mobility Instructor. Yet the need to get groceries, head to the pharmacy, and to…
Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm
Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and on the podcast, he joins me to dive deep into his research on Deep InfoMax, a novel self-supervised learning approach to training AI models –…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud
Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal engineer Mark Marron, who describes…
Where’s my stuff? Developing AI with help from people who are blind or low vision to meet their needs
| Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Ed Cutrell, and Lida Theodorou
Microsoft AI for Accessibility is funding the ORBIT research project, which is enlisting the help of people who are blind or low vision to build a new dataset. People who are blind or low vision can contribute to the project…
In the news | CIFAR
Microsoft partners with CIFAR on AI & COVID-19 Catalyst Grants
Microsoft Research & Microsoft AI for Health are pleased to partner with CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) on their AI & COVID-19 Catalyst Grants initiative. The initiative brings together industry, non-profits, governments, researchers and clinicians working on innovative, high-risk,…
Awards | ACM
2020 Knuth Prize Awarded to Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist, received the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize for fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science. Dwork is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists of her generation. Her research has transformed several fields, most notably…
In the news | Middle East & Africa News Center
Ministry of Public Health Introduces Covid-19 Health Bot to Citizens in Lebanon
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Lebanon has announced the roll out of a Covid-19 Health bot solution for citizens. The Bot has been developed by trakMD in collaboration with Microsoft, the Epidemiological Surveillance and E-Health teams of MoPH…
In the news | The GitHub Blog
Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19
COVID-19 brought a sudden—and global—need for people to stay home. This pressed many organizations to support remote work wherever possible, changing the routines and environment of millions of people in a matter of days. This shift means developers and other…