In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
"What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft adds partners to pathogen-tracking Premonition project
During Ignite 2020, Microsoft took the wraps off its efforts to detect pathogens before they cause widespread outbreaks. Applying learnings from Premonition, a five-year epidemiological project spearheaded by Microsoft Healthcare, the company hopes to employ a combination of robotics, cloud…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Research and innovation: understanding customers and upskilling workers
“I couldn’t live without my phone!” exclaims Jhu Wan Yu. The 27-year-old event planner is like many residents in Taiwan’s busy, tech-obsessed capital, Taipei. She does almost everything online and feels staying connected is essential. “I spend more than 10…
In the news | SlashGear
Microsoft Research holographic storage could be the cloud’s future
In addition to living in a digital age, our lives have also started to revolve around clouds, that is, cloud storage and services. This elusive and ephemeral concept, however, still needs to be tethered to physical realities and limited by…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Creating a resilient patient-centered healthcare system
Microsoft is helping organizations set a course for recovery and resiliency in an ever-changing healthcare environment. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re announcing the general availability date for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (opens in new tab) and revealing more enhanced capabilities that help organizations…
In the news | Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Blog
Introducing the Medical Imaging Server for DICOM
Today Microsoft is releasing the Medical Imaging Server for DICOM, new Open Source Software (OSS) that provides developers with a powerful tool to migrate medical imaging data to the cloud and integrate imaging metadata with clinical data in FHIR using…
Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI
By the Semantic Machines research team “Easier said than done.” These four words reflect the promise of conversational AI. It takes just seconds to ask When are Megan and I both free? but much longer to find out manually from…
In the news | Quanta Magazine
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition. The 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, begins today. It may go down in history for at least two…
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing test framework
Microsoft is looking to help developers continuously fuzz-test code prior to release, via the open source OneFuzz framework. Described as a self-hosted fuzzing-as-a-service platform, OneFuzz enables developer-driven fuzzing to identify software vulnerabilites during the development process. Source code for OneFuzz…