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Intern Insights: Vaishnavi Ranganathan with Angela Busheska
| Vaishnavi Ranganathan and Angela Busheska
Undergrad Angela Busheska has a passion for sustainability. She talks with researcher Vaishnavi Ranganathan about the why behind her drive, the work she did at Microsoft on a platform for tracking land use, and her advice for making the internship…
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 | Microsoft News Center
3 big AI trends to watch in 2024
2023 was a major year for generative AI, as it went from research labs to real life with millions of people using it through popular tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. This year, AI is expected to become more accessible,…
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…
What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra
| Johannes Gehrke and Ranveer Chandra
You may know tech, but how well do you know the people behind the advances? Ranveer Chandra talks about growing up in India, his work in systems and networking, and finding joy in your job in the first episode of…
In the news | The Times of Israel
Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech
US tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Start-Up Nation Central to help Israeli agrifood tech startups augment their AI-powered models for sustainable farming solutions and get exposure to global markets. Microsoft and Start-Up Nation Central are working together to identify…
In the news | BBC: The Climate Question
Can artificial intelligence help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change?
AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?