In the news | Untangling the Web Podcast
Episode 13: Web and the New Future of Work with Jaime Teevan
In this episode, (26 min. long) we talk with Jaime Teevan, chief scientist for Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices, where she’s charged with creating the future of productivity. She also developed the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing and introduced…
Reinforcing program correctness with reinforcement learning
| Suvam Mukherjee
Many of our online activities, from receiving and sending emails to searching for information to streaming movies, are driven behind the scenes by cloud-based distributed architectures. Writing concurrent software—programs with multiple logical threads of execution—is of paramount importance to scale…
The Incubation Checklist will increase your project’s chance at success, but you’ll also have structured your insights in a way that can transfer what you’ve learned to your team’s (or your company’s) next incubation.
Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…
In the news | MICROSOFT AZURE BLOG
Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey
For operators, many challenges can be involved in their journey to the cloud, some more complex than others. Here, it is important to note that when it comes to operators’ path to cloud migration, there is no such thing as…
This is a common story among experimenters: you have a hypothesis to test, you code the change you want to deploy, and you design an A/B test to properly measure the impact of the change on the user. After the…
Producing great product insights is bolstered by understanding what motivates stakeholders to learn, how they retain information, how to build on prior knowledge, and what experiences can activate behaviors. This helps ensure that research is acted upon and encourages colleagues…
In the news | Volastra
Volastra Therapeutics Partners with Microsoft to Advance Metastatic Cancer Research
Collaboration will integrate Microsoft Azure AI and Volastra’s insights into tumor biology to develop machine learning tools to detect drivers of tumor growth and predict metastatic risk.
A responsible approach to innovation
The intersection of desirability, feasibility, and viability is seen as the sweet spot for innovation; these attributes are the cornerstones of Design Thinking. But what else should be considered? Here are some ideas to approach innovation responsibly, so you can…