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In the news | Microsoft Stories
AI is helping vulnerable communities in India better understand heat wave dangers
Heat waves are becoming more common and frequent around the planet. A non-profit is now deploying AI to help vulnerable communities fight its consequences.
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
A street-by-street view of digital inequity in the United States
We often say that you can’t fix a problem you don’t understand. Today, Microsoft is releasing a new Digital Equity Data Dashboard to help create better understanding of the economic opportunity gaps in towns, cities and neighborhoods across the United…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War
Editor’s note: Today Microsoft published a new intelligence report, Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War. This report represents research conducted by Microsoft’s threat intelligence and data science teams with the goal of sharpening our understanding of the threat landscape in…
In the news | Fortune
The value of a data science degree, as told by Microsoft’s chief data scientist
Juan M. Lavista Ferres learned to code when he was 8 years old, and a few decades later his childhood interest in programming and technology evolved into a fruitful career—including a current stint at Microsoft of more than 13 years
In the news | Microsoft EU Policy Blog
Microsoft responds to European Cloud Provider feedback with new programs and principles
You may have read last month in news reports about concerns raised in Europe about some of Microsoft’s software licensing practices that impact competing cloud providers. As I said to journalists then, we felt that “while not all of these…
In the news | Analytics India Magazine
Microsoft launches Open Data for Society
Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft Corporation, has announced that Microsoft has launched Open Data for Society. It is a central location for datasets that Microsoft has made open.
In the news | Global Epidemics
New Analysis Shows Vaccines Could Have Prevented 318,000 Deaths
A new analysis by researchers at Brown School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Microsoft AI for Health shows that vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 Covid-19 deaths between January…
In the news | NPR
This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in…
Awards | Fast Company
These companies are using AI and data to empower positive change
FINALISTS: AI4Leprosy, Novartis Foundation, Microsoft, and Instituto Oswaldo Cruz The AI and data category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects that harness the power of data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence to understand the world and empower change.