In the news | National Geographic
Greener air travel will depend on these emerging technologies
Here’s a word you may have overlooked in 2020: flygskam, a Swedish term for the feeling of being ashamed to fly. In a year that saw a 66 percent decrease in flights, compared to 2019, you might think that flygskam…
VinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
| Pengchuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans understand the world by perceiving and fusing information from multiple channels, such as images viewed by the eyes, voices heard by the ears, and other forms of sensory input. One of the core aspirations in AI is to develop…
In the news | The Tällberg Foundation
Welcome to the Brave New (digital) World
In this episode of "New Thinking for a New World" we explore living online with a woman whose job it is to make the experience as productive and pleasant as possible. Jaime Teevan is Microsoft’s Chief Scientist for Experiences and…
Awards | ACM
4 Microsoft Researchers named Fellows of the ACM
Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…
In the news | Medium
Teaming with Microsoft to Combat the Flu
“Raising the water for all boats” is part of our DNA here at the Providence Digital Innovation Group. Our approach is to shape, build, and scale meaningful ideas here at Providence — and then offer them externally as a part…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the effects of glacial melting at the top of the world
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, stretching for more than 2,000 miles, is home to the world’s highest mountains. Names like Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga summon images of snow-capped, icy peaks as far as the eye can see.
Science of Air Quality
Currently humans on the planet have very little information about the quality of the air that they breathe as they move through their daily lives.
Post Covid-19 Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has stress-tested cities in ways nearly unimaginable, from shuttering retail to depleting crucial tax revenues that will cripple public service provision for years to come, to fundamentally disrupting the concept of commuting for millions of people.
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate the next generation of the Terra platform for health and life science research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 11, 2021 — On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through…