In the news | Digital Health
5 takeaways from the Future of Rural Health Care Summit
Digital health experts from the public and private sectors gathered Tuesday at Sanford Health’s Summit on the Future of Rural Health Care. The event, hosted by the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system, featured a lineup of speakers from big…
In the news | Fierce Healthcare
Rural America is fertile ground for healthcare innovation, experimentation, tech leaders say
Rural health systems and hospitals are poised to be the next hubs of tech innovation, leveraging digital health and virtual care to serve patients across thousands of square miles and over state lines.
In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft is teaching computers to understand cause and effect
Causal machine learning with Microsoft's next-best-question model could replace AB testing to help you make better business decisions. AI that analyzes data to help you make decisions is set to be an increasingly big part of business tools, and the…
邓攀的“贪心”算法：从生物跨界到计算机是什么体验？
编者按：科研之路并非繁花似锦，很多时候是在一条没有脚印的道路上探索未知。科研之路应该怎么走？如何抓住机遇实现转弯？微软亚洲研究院主管研究员邓攀在以《人生的“贪心”算法》为题的演讲中，分享了自己从本科毕业到现在一路走来的经历与收获。从生物跨界到计算机，邓攀是如何做到“内心有谱，丝毫不慌”的？遇到机会，她又是如何竭尽全力把握住每一个可能的？一起来看邓攀怎样编写了自己人生的“贪心”算法吧！ 以下地址可观...
Awards | Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs
Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht and Jaime Teevan awarded KDD Best Paper Award 2022
A team of Microsoft researchers led by Mengting Wan and Jing Ma, former intern, along with fellow researchers Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, and Jaime Teevan, won the KDD Best Paper Award 2022 for their paper Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs.
In the news | WIRED
The Case for Collective Intelligence
Our current forms of democracy are only early and highly imperfect manifestations of collective intelligence—coordination systems that incorporate and process decentralized, agentic, and meaningful decisionmaking across individuals and communities to produce best-case decisions for the collective.
微软亚洲研究院与CCF携手十六年，打造国际化学术共同体
编者按：从1992年到2022年，微软扎根中国30年，与中国的信息产业共同发展壮大。而伴随着微软在中国的不断成长，微软亚洲研究院也已发展成为具有世界级影响力的计算机基础和应用研究机构。能够取得这样的成绩，除了微软亚洲研究院一直对科研秉持“长期主义”、持续创新突破外，也离不开与全球顶级高校、科研机构及企业的合作。其中，微软亚洲研究院与中国计算机学会（CCF）的合作已有十六载，双方不断推动领域内的交流...
LaTTe paper (opens in new tab) and video (opens in new tab) | Trajectory Transformer paper (opens in new tab) and video (opens in new tab) | Github code (opens in new tab) Language is the most intuitive way for…
In the news | ACM
danah boyd featured in the “People of ACM”
The August issue of People of ACM featured danah boyd, Partner Researcher in the New York City Lab. She is the author of "It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (opens in new tab) and "Participatory Culture in a…