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In the news | MIT Technology Review
How to fine-tune AI for prosperity
Artificial intelligence could put us on the path to a booming economic future, but getting there will take some serious course corrections. When Chad Syverson loads the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website these days looking for the latest data…
What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman
| Johannes Gehrke and Emre Kiciman
Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and how systems thinking still impacts…
Awards | MistyWest
Tusher Chakraborty named a Misties Top 20 Winner
Tusher Chakraborty was recognized for the contributions to enabling data-driven farming, influencing FCC to adopt regulations on IoT in TV White Spaces, and pioneering research in satellite-based IoT communications. The Misties Awards are for top 20 individual leaders who are…
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to…
Microsoft at NSDI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems
| Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft at NDSI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems Topics range from 5G, space, datacenters, and wide-area networking to applications in artificial intelligence, security, video conferencing, and gaming. Learn more about the discoveries and advances we’re making with networked…
Abstracts: April 16, 2024
| Gretchen Huizinga and Tusher Chakraborty
Tusher Chakraborty talks about the paper “Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things,” including a method for supporting communication between a large IoT-satellite constellation and devices on Earth within a limited spectrum.
In the news | IoT For All
FOSSA Systems Explores Satellite IoT with Microsoft Research
In the news | SatNews
FOSSA Systems explores satIoT with Microsoft Research
In the news | The Verge
Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost? What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They…