In the news | Future Scot
Scotland’s ‘innovation fellowship scheme’ points to better health and social care future
Harnessing the game-changing potential of emerging technologies is important in every sector – but within NHS Scotland it is absolutely vital. Improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare must be a key driver in supporting the NHS Recovery Plan to…
In the news | Microsoft Stories Asia
Microsoft, university researchers use AI to aid in study of ancient script on China’s ‘oracle bones’
Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them. The script on the “oracle bones,” so…
We are announcing ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science. ClimaX is trained using several heterogeneous datasets spanning many weather variables at multiple spatio-temporal resolutions. We show that such a foundational model can be…
Research Focus: Week of January 23, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Organizations must digitize various documents, many with charts and images, to manage…
Biomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure
| Ilyana Rosenberg, Jer-Ming Chia, and Chaitanya Bangur
We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease. One of the tools that we believe…
In the news | Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group Article
Introducing ClimaX: The first foundation model for weather and climate
We are announcing ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science. ClimaX is trained using several heterogeneous datasets spanning many weather variables at multiple spatio-temporal resolutions. We show that such a foundational model can be…
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Is Aggressively Investing In Healthcare AI
Earlier this month, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Paige announced a new partnership with renowned technology giant, Microsoft. Paige describes itself as a company at the forefront of technology and healthcare, especially in the field of cancer diagnostics and pathology.…
Awards | Views: Compositional reasoning for concurrent programs
Views paper wins “Most Influential POPL 2013 paper”
Have you ever been overwhelmed by invoices with different pieces of information like payables, dates, quantity of goods, unit prices and amounts? When dealing with essential business contracts, are you worried about getting a decimal point wrong, causing incalculable financial…