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Mapping global floods with 10 years of satellite radar data
Floods are among the deadliest and most costly forms of extreme weather, affecting millions of people and causing over $40 billion in damage annually. And they’re getting worse. As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, we…
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Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations
Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society’s most important questions. In this work, we take a step toward…
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing
| Kathleen Sullivan, Alta Charo, and Daniel Kluttz
Bioethics and law expert R. Alta Charo explores the value of regulating technologies at the application level and the role of coordinated oversight in genome editing, while Microsoft GM Daniel Kluttz reflects on Charo’s points, drawing parallels to AI governance.
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Kevin Hsieh selected to participate in 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
The signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering brings the next generation of engineering leaders together to share new techniques and approaches, facilitate collaboration, and build professional networks.
PadChest-GR: A bilingual grounded radiology reporting benchmark for chest X-rays
| Daniel Coelho de Castro and Javier Alvarez-Valle
The world’s first multimodal, bilingual radiology dataset could reshape the way radiologists and AI systems make sense of X-rays. PadChest-GR, developed by the University of Alicante with Microsoft Research, has the potential to advance research across the field for years…
编者按：2022年11月，ChatGPT 的诞生开启了人工智能的新纪元。在过去几年的时间里，人工智能在全球的医疗健康领域有怎样的应用？未来又有哪些机遇？近日，在微软研究院最新一期的播客节目中，微软联合创始人、盖茨基金会主席比尔·盖茨及 OpenAI 研究负责人 Sébastien Bubeck 与微软全球资深副总裁、微软研究院院长、微软全球研究与创新孵化负责人 Peter Lee 对此进行了探讨，...
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Connecting the Healthcare Agent Orchestrator to your Electronic Health Record and Microsoft Fabric
From childbirth to chronic disease, India’s rural healthcare workers face it all. Now, they have a tool that listens—and answers—in the languages they use every day.
| Kathleen Sullivan and Amanda Craig Deckard
Generative AI presents a unique challenge and opportunity to reexamine governance practices for the responsible development, deployment, and use of AI. To advance thinking in this space, Microsoft has tapped into the experience and knowledge of experts across domains—from genome…