Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, was tasked with assessing the implications of GPT-4 for medicine. And he thinks it could increase efficiency and even empathy in the healthcare system, as well as boost biomedical…
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which…
Earlier this month, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Paige announced a new partnership with renowned technology giant, Microsoft. Paige describes itself as a company at the forefront of technology and healthcare, especially in the field…
Ranveer Chandra, Marc Pollefeys, Gary Sullivan and Jaime Teevan, were named as one of the 57 ACM Fellows for 2022. Ranveer for contributions to software-defined wireless networking and applications to agriculture and rural broadband; Marc…
A.I. language tools depend on data—and labor—from native speakers. Sanjib Chaudhary chanced upon StoryWeaver, a multilingual children’s storytelling platform, while searching for books he could read to his 7-year-old daughter. Chaudhary’s mother tongue is Kochila…
Siva Kakarla has been awarded one of six IETF Applied Networking Research Prizes for 2023, for his work on “SCALE: Automatically Finding RFC Compliance Bugs in DNS Nameservers”. Kakarla and his colleagues, Ryan Beckett, George…
Junaid Bajwa, Chief Medical Scientist, Health Futures team, made the Intelligent Health community’s top 55 Innovators 2022 list.
Not all the interventions are so simple. In the radiotherapy department, oncologist Dr Raj Jena explained that when a patient comes in for curative radiotherapy it can take up to two hours to mark up…
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
Desney Tan, along with fellow authors, Adiyan Mujibiya, Xiang Cao, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel, Jun Rekimoto, received the 10-Year Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS 2022)…
