Developing and adopting technologies for scientific visualization and data management that accelerate insight in the environmental and earth sciences
The 7th annual workshop of the Microsoft-Swiss Joint Research Centre (with ETH Zurich/EPFL) takes place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. The workshop will provide an opportunity for project updates and collaborative meetings across twelve projects. Speakers from each project collaboration will present the current state of their projects and outlined future plans.
The Urban Innovation Initiative at the Microsoft Research Redmond Lab pursues state of the art science and technology development for urbanization. Lines of research focus on mitigating the environmental impact of our increasingly urban world, ensuring equitable economic growth, and building strong communities. This highly multidisciplinary team seeks Postdoc Researchers in environmental science (or related) and urban economics (or related) to help advance this agenda. You will work collaboratively with our team of social, natural,…
The Urban Innovation Initiative at Microsoft Research pursues state of the art science and technology development for urbanization. Lines of research focus on climate change and mitigating the environmental impact of our increasingly urban world, ensuring equitable economic growth, and building strong communities. The Urban Innovation team seeks Research Interns in computer science, engineering, environmental science, social science, and economics to help advance this agenda. Job number: 742580
AI for Humanitarian Action, AI for Earth, AI for Accessibility, and Digital Crimes. These are some of the programs at Microsoft where you can apply your world-class expertise to have a huge impact on global and local challenges. Come to work every day and contribute to projects that help save lives, alleviate suffering, and restore human dignity. Use the power of technology and AI to promote human rights, increase accessibility for those with disabilities, and…
Water managers in the western United States rely on long-term forecasts of temperature and precipitation to prepare for droughts and other wet weather extremes. To improve the accuracy of these long-term forecasts, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched the Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo, a year-long real-time forecasting challenge in which participants aimed to skillfully predict temperature and precipitation in the western U.S. two to four weeks…
Microsoft Research India has established a center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI). Part of the Microsoft Research (MSR) Lab in Bengaluru, this center will focus on creating and nurturing projects that can have real-world and large-scale societal impact., MSR India is collaborating collaborate with a number of partners, such as academia, startups and NGOs through SCAI.
It is difficult to downplay the need to combat climate change. A recent report from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has determined that we require dramatic and rapid changes to the global economy to avoid increasing climate-related risks for natural and human systems. The system overhauls that are necessary require governmental interventions, which are difficult to achieve without strong public support. Unfortunately, public awareness of, and concern about, climate change often does not match the…
Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and mixed reality have the potential to upend the way we create, work, and interact with one another. This disruption is an opportunity and a challenge. As we see technologies begin to closely replicate aspects of creative human output, we must consider the evolution of work and our relationship to machines. New technologies alter our connections with one other, they have the potential to rapidly turn our ideas into tangibles,…
Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate, as threats from human settlement expansion, illegal wildlife killing, and climate change place enormous pressure on wildlife populations. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting – but urgent – task of surveying wildlife populations and making policy recommendations to governments and industry. What species need legal protection from hunting? A road needs to connect two cities; which route will have the least detrimental impact on…
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by machine learning, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting…
