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Teaming with Microsoft to Combat the Flu
“Raising the water for all boats” is part of our DNA here at the Providence Digital Innovation Group. Our approach is to shape, build, and scale meaningful ideas here at Providence — and then offer them externally as a part…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the effects of glacial melting at the top of the world
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, stretching for more than 2,000 miles, is home to the world’s highest mountains. Names like Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga summon images of snow-capped, icy peaks as far as the eye can see.
Science of Air Quality
Currently humans on the planet have very little information about the quality of the air that they breathe as they move through their daily lives.
Post Covid-19 Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has stress-tested cities in ways nearly unimaginable, from shuttering retail to depleting crucial tax revenues that will cripple public service provision for years to come, to fundamentally disrupting the concept of commuting for millions of people.
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate the next generation of the Terra platform for health and life science research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 11, 2021 — On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through…
In the news | The Times
Inner Eye AI identifies tumours to speed up treatment of cancer
A hospital in Cambridge is the first to use artificial intelligence technology developed by Microsoft to treat cancer patients faster, helping to cut the treatment backlog and save lives. Addenbrooke’s is the first hospital in the world to use Inner…
Summer Internship 2021
Seeking Research Interns in computer science, engineering, design, social, health, ML, and environmental science to join us this Summer. Lines of research focus on climate change and mitigating the environmental impact of our increasingly urban world.
Awards | Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation
Top project in Azure All Hands 2021
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…