AI For Good Lab
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Dans l’actualité | Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the effects of glacial melting
We don’t have time for things to move at a glacial pace, especially with melting ice! Our #AIForGood research lab, @icimod, @Mila_Quebec, and @UWMadison are using #OpenData to monitor glaciers. Check it out.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft On the Issues
Sustainability: A year of progress and a decade of action
One year ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood announced Microsoft’s bold commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove our historic emissions by 2050. This was the beginning of Microsoft raising the bar on…
Dans l’actualité | Official Microsoft Blog
One year later: The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’
A year ago, we launched the biggest commitment in Microsoft’s history to focus on the climate crisis. As Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, and I announced last January, Microsoft committed to become carbon negative as a company by 2030 – meaning that by that date we will remove…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft On the Issues
New steps to preserve and protect journalism and local newsrooms
Growing up in Newton, Kansas our local newspaper, The Kansan, was the lifeblood of our community. At 3:30 p.m. every afternoon it landed on porches and lawns across the town, and we saw our local culture reflected in its pages:…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Stories
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn
The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
Dans l’actualité | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy
Around the world, 2020 has emerged as one of the most challenging years in many of our lifetimes. In six months, the world has endured multiple challenges, including a pandemic that has spurred a global economic crisis. As societies reopen,…
Dans l’actualité | National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
Interactive Tool: Catalyzing Policing Reform with Data Interactive
Nationwide protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd have underscored the urgency for rethinking policing in the nation, and many of the changes will need to happen at the local level. Understanding patterns of policing through analysis…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft on the Issues
Mobilizing AI for Health to fight against COVID-19
Given the urgency the COVID-19 virus has created, we are mobilizing our AI for Health initiative to focus on helping those on the front lines of research of COVID-19. We’re focusing our efforts in five specific areas where we think…