In the news | Novartis
The art of drug design in a technological age
Novartis is collaborating with Microsoft to apply machine learning to medicinal chemistry — part of an effort to leverage AI to bring treatments to patients more efficiently. There’s a misconception about drug hunting that can mask one of the biggest…
In the news | Fast Company
ImmuneCODE named to Fast Company “Health: Next Big Things in Tech” list
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech - For using data to create a test for past COVID-19 infection | The tech giant teamed up with Adaptive Biotech to create ImmuneCODE, an open-source database of immune responses to COVID-19, which they used to…
SynapseML: A simple, multilingual, and massively parallel machine learning library
| Mark Hamilton
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of SynapseML (previously MMLSpark), an open-source library that simplifies the creation of massively scalable machine learning (ML) pipelines. Building production-ready distributed ML pipelines can be difficult, even for the most seasoned developer. Composing…
By Hilary Dwyer, Ph.D. Image credit: iStock My colleague Nancy Perry recently posted about how we’re driving a customer-driven mindset in our organization. Why are we focusing on this? We believe that a key piece of successful product making is…
Awards | NCBI
Soundscape wins Vision Award 2021
The NCBI (National Council for the blind of Ireland) awarded the Microsoft Soundscape app the Visible Difference Industry award which recognizes exemplary contribution by a company or organization in creating an inclusive approach for people who are blind or vision…
SOSP is a top-tier bi-annual conference in the systems research area. In the recent SOSP 2021, researchers from MSR Asia, along with collaborators from Zhejiang University, presented a paper: “Forerunner: Constraint-Based Speculative Transaction Execution for Ethereum.” This technology is intellectually…
2022 Summer Internship
We are thus particularly interested in candidates with experience in remote sensing or cross-training satellite-based models with ground-level measurement.
Ada Camp |读博那些事儿：如何对抗压力？在国内深造还是选择出国？
编者按：如果你曾考虑过“以学术为业”，那么“攻读博士”一定在你的选择清单之中。是否要读博？在国内深造还是出国？我会遇到什么挑战？我能做好科研吗？这些问题也随之而来。对于习惯了学生身份却还未真正体验过科研生活的同学而言，过来人的经验一定能帮助你更好地做出选择。 在 Ada Camp 2021 中，微软亚洲研究院主管研究员曹婷、陈琪、邓攀从个人经历出发，分享了她们的读博故事。她们分别于海内外不同高校获...
In the news | Neowin
Microsoft shares more details about its Privacy Preserving Machine Learning initiative
Ensuring customer privacy and maintaining their trust, at least on paper, has become a priority for many tech firms, especially since Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal back in 2018. Striking a balance between the privacy of individuals while showing them personalized content -…