In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data
If you’ve always wanted to watch fish swim past a data center with 27.6 petabytes of storage, stop surfing around as today is your lucky day. Microsoft has taken the oppor-tuna-ty to install a webcam next to its undersea data…
A conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
Episode 36, August 8, 2018 - In a wide-ranging interview, Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott shares his insights on both the history and the future of computing, talks about how his impulse to celebrate the extraordinary people “behind the…
Life in the FAST lane
Would you like to know how this user research team works at an extremely fast cadence but still manages to scale knowledge and build influence? One team member shares their successes and challenges and explains how they do it.
KDD Conference Analytics
The Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities within it: publications, authors, institutions, topics, journals, and conferences.
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) is updated weekly to keep up with the pace of scientific discoveries and technology advances. Just a few months ago, in our April 20, 2018 blog, we disclosed that the graph contained more than 173 million…
In the news | Towards Data Science
What’s New in Deep Learning Research: Microsoft’s TextWorld is the OpenAI Gym of Language Learning Agents
Recently, researchers from the Microsoft Research Montreal Lab, released an open source project called TextWorld, which attempts to train reinforcement learning agents using Text-Based games.
In the news | InfoQ
F# 4.5 Brings Spans, Match!, and More
Recently, Microsoft has announced the new language version of F# called F# 4.5. The F# 4.5 has been developed completely through an open request for comments (RFC) process, with significant contributions from the community, particularly in feature discussions and demonstrating…