GigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
| Hoifung Poon and Naoto Usuyama
Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model, for advancing clinical research.
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Announces New Foundation Model For Digital Pathology, Diving Deeper Into Clinical Medicine
Microsoft is delving even deeper into clinical medicine, evident by the announcement today highlighting the company’s development of a foundation model for pathology in partnership with Providence and the University of Washington. Specifically, the company has leveraged its significant work…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft, Providence and UW make use of generative AI for digital cancer diagnosis
Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new artificial intelligence model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples from more than 30,000 patients.…
周礼栋：打开创新组织的管理锦囊
本文转载自《商学院》，作者石丹。 “创造一个空间，让每个人的每一份天赋都能得以释放和运用，并演变成为集体天才的作品。”哈佛商学院教授、领导力研究中心主席琳达·希尔（Linda Hill）在名为“如何管理集体创造力”的 TED 演讲中如是说。 “这与我们的目标很类似。”微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋说，“打造开放积极、透明无碍、多元包容的环境，吸引全球顶尖科研人才，共同创造具有广泛社会影响且突破性的前瞻技...
Abstracts: May 20, 2024
| Andrey Kolobov and Gretchen Huizinga
Andrey Kolobov discusses WindSeer, a small CNN capable of estimating the wind field around an sUAV in flight more finely and with less compute and data than traditional models. The advancement can help support longer and safer autonomous flights.
Podcast: Evaluating LLMs using novel approaches. With Dr. Sunayana Sitaram
Episode 015 | May 21, 2024 [Music] Sunayana Sitaram: Our ultimate goal is to build evaluation systems and also other kinds of systems in general where humans and LLMs can work together. We're really trying to get humans to do…
In the news | TIME
Inside Audrey Tang’s Plan to Align Technology and Democracy
E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang's new book provides a vision of how advanced collaborative technology can bolster democracy.
What’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill
| Johannes Gehrke and Jacki O'Neill
Jacki O'Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O'Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how living abroad is good for…
“If life is a marathon, then health is the key to its duration.” Health is not only the foundation of happiness and societal progress but also a pivotal aspect of the intelligent era. AI’s integration into healthcare represents a transformative…