Energy
Microsoft is exploring ways in which research can enable advances in electrification and deep decarbonization toward lowering carbon emissions in the fight against climate change.
Supply chain
Microsoft sees advances in supply chain technologies as being key functional horizontal components enabling success in many industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, and agriculture.
Real-world evidence and the path from data to impact
| Darren Edge and Jonathan Larson
From the intense shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to the effects of climate change, our global society has never faced greater risk. The Societal Resilience team at Microsoft Research was established in recognition of this risk and tasked with developing open technologies that enable a scalable response in times of crisis. And just…
In the news | Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
Dr. Peter Lee: Microsoft Research & Incubations
Kevin talks with Peter Lee about critical response scientific research, deep learning and neural networks—all related to COVID-19 and Microsoft’s growing healthcare and life sciences initiative. Listen in as they also discuss the key role that public trust plays in…
In the news | Microsoft AI Lab
AI Lab: Synthetic Data Showcase
Sharing data from sensitive sources is critical to research but can put vulnerable data subjects at risk of being identified. We created an open-source pipeline that generates synthetic data to preserve privacy when sharing and analyzing sensitive datasets.
As the world becomes more complex, so too do the problems we need to solve together – so less collaboration isn’t the answer. What teams need is more collaboration, and more effective and efficient collaboration, so that everyone can contribute…
In the news | Nature
Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
In January this year, Microsoft made a major announcement: it had paid for the removal of 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among its purchases were projects to expand forests in Peru, Nicaragua and the United States,…
In the news | LinkedIn
What science is teaching us about the future of work
My job as Chief Scientist is to use science to inform how Microsoft thinks about the future of work. To be able to contribute research during this unprecedented time means a lot to me. For instance, our research on transition…
Facebook faced a great deal of criticism in September, following revelations published in the Wall Street Journal. One example was that Facebook had begun a program, called XCheck, to route public figures away from their content moderation process, to be…