Many of us will remember 2020 for masks, social distancing, loss in all its facets, and the upheaval of how we approached our daily lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. IT decision makers and business decision makers had…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Building trust at the origin
Despite all the positives of synthetic media–create expression, educational applications, assistive technologies, entertainment–there’s a downside. It’s increasingly hard to detect, which leaves the door open for media to be altered after publication and spread as disinformation. Project Origin aims to…
Specific suggestions to promote communication and asking for help, and help new hires connect with the team and get started on work.
Our position is that thoughtless collaboration will always be poor collaboration no matter how good or bad the technology is. This guide to better remote meetings draws principles from the Collaboration and Meetings section of The New Future of Work…
Five suggestions for individuals and teams for making working from home work better.
In the news | Fierce Healthcare
Boosted by Microsoft’s tech, Adaptive Biotechnologies’ new diagnostic test for COVID-19 gets FDA nod
Adaptive Biotechnologies launched a new diagnostic test for COVID-19 that uses machine learning technology from Microsoft to detect prior coronavirus infections. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the biotech company's T-cell-based…
Understanding our customers’ mental models, the friction they experience, and how they diverge from our pathways can inform how we design our product terrain in a way that guides users to the intended, ‘golden,’ destination by funneling them back from…
In the news | Az Predictor
Az Predictor: AI powered interactive assistant
We built Az Predictor, an intelligent command completion module for Azure Powershell. Az Predictor helps our Azure developers find the cmdlet they are looking for efficiently, identify the required parameters quickly, and experience fewer errors. Az Predictor takes the context…
Learning visuomotor policies for autonomous systems from event-based cameras
| Sai Vemprala
Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Sai Vemprala, Senior Researcher, and Ashish Kapoor, Partner Researcher, of Microsoft Research along with Sami Mian (opens in new tab), who was a PhD Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and an intern…