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In the news | Nature Biotechnology
Microsoft makes splash in AI-enabled lab solutions
Microsoft unveils the first collaborations for its Station B, a platform to automate lab experiments so scientists can test and reproduce ever-more-complex designs.
In the news | Washington Post
A conservative YouTube star just lost his income stream for homophobic slurs. Here’s what happened, and why
Tarleton Gillespie, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, discusses the content-moderation efforts of YouTube and other social media platforms.
In the news | Mila
Visualizing the impact of climate change
Mila’s multidisciplinary team is working to bridge the gaps at the intersection of climate science and machine learning.
Awards | International Communications Association (ICA)
Nancy Baym awarded 2019 Frederick Williams Prize
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research was awarded the 2019 Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology. The award recognizes the major contributions and cumulative achievements of senior scholars who have advanced the study and…
In the news | Open Data Science Conference
Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneouse Treatement Effects: the Microsoft EconML Library Talk
One of the biggest promises of machine learning is the automation of decision making in a multitude of application domains. A core problem that arises in most data-driven personalized decision scenarios is the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects: what is…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft makes a push to simplify machine learning
Continuing its strategy of democratizing access to AI, Microsoft released new machine learning products that range from no-code tools to hosted notebooks, with a number of new APIs and other services in-between.
In the news | Counterfactual
Introduction to EconML Packages (meta-learners)
In recent years, research in the fusion of econometrics and machine learning has been booming. For example, related Tutorials are held in KDD2018 and NeurIPS2018. As one of the trends, Microsoft Research has published a package called EconML, and I…
Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model and a new public dataset
It was crunch time, just as it had been many times before in the preceding weeks. Such is the nature of real-time competition. The yearlong Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo was being sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation and the National…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog
Is drought on the horizon? Researchers turn to AI in a bid to improve forecasts
As winter drags on, some people wonder whether to pack shorts for a late-March escape to Florida, while others eye April temperature trends in anticipation of sowing crops. Water managers in the western U.S. check for the possibility of early-spring…