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In the news | Clarín Rural
Conectividad y agricultura digital para todos, la visión de una compañía líder en el mundo
En diálogo con Clarín Rural, Ranveer Chandra, Director de Investigación para la Agroalimentación de Microsoft, contó cómo imagina el futuro de la agricultura. La agricultura digital dejó de ser una curiosidad de nicho para imponerse como un sólido paradigma que…
Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making, where an agent interacts with…
In the news | Época Negócios | One Planet
Microsoft accelerates data and AI applications to digitize agriculture
Microsoft’s leading researcher in the application of technologies in the field, Ranveer Chandra, tells how the company works to help create the future of agriculture.
In the news | DeepLearning.AI
Smarts for Farms
The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. What’s new: Microsoft open-sourced AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields. How it works: FarmVibes-AI includes systems that analyze overhead imagery and sensor data to…
In the news | The Hindu
Microsoft to open source its agri-tech tools to enable data-driven farming
Experts believe that open sourcing tech tools for farming can help tackle world’s urgent food and climate change crisis. Microsoft will open source the tools of its farm-focused technology, Project FarmVibes, to let researchers, data scientists, and farmers build on…
In the news | NewsNation
Farmers are harvesting data to increase yields
Andrew Nelson’s family has farmed in the rolling hills of eastern Washington state for five generations. Rows of wheat, peas, lentils and barley stretch across their 7,500-acre farm. Yet each spring, those hills provided constant stress when trying to predict…
In the news | TechTalkThai
Microsoft opens open source AI algorithms to help manage farms
Microsoft has announced the launch of the FarmVibes project and released open source, FarmVibes.AI ai algorithms used in this project, a project that uses AI to manage farms, helping to make farming more efficient. Within the system, several types of…
In the news | Popular Science
Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet
Can the people of the world be fed without ruining the planet in the process? Among the many scientists, organizations, companies, and farmers working on this problem is Microsoft. Yesterday, the tech giant open-sourced what they call the toolkit for…
In the news | Geekwire
Microsoft open-sources farm technologies, planting seeds for data-driven sustainable agriculture
Microsoft Research is releasing the underlying code for a series of agricultural technologies under open-source licenses, encouraging soil specialists, plant scientists and other experts to build tech solutions for sustainable farms. The move comes as U.S. farmers grapple with low…