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Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024
In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.
What’s Your Story: Nicole Forsgren
| Johannes Gehrke and Nicole Forsgren
Partner Research Manager and developer experience expert Nicole Forsgren talks about the future of software engineering with AI, why she loves tech, and her reliance on a spreadsheet and her gut when making career-changing decisions.
Research Focus: Week of January 22, 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. Join Microsoft Research Forum (opens in new tab) for a continuous exchange of…
Research Focus: Week of July 3, 2023
In this issue: A new study looks at engineers’ views on hybrid work; prompt engineering adds context and specificity to generative AI models; Overwatch learns code edit patterns to aid developers; a Qlib update addresses financial market challenges.
In the news | Future from a16z
On Workplace Productivity
What does it mean to be productive? At the beginning of the pandemic, when many workers went remote, some managers were tempted to start counting things — whether hours, objects, or other things. But they’re about 100 years and two…
In the news | TechRepublic
Want to ruin a developer’s day? Coders reveal what really destroys their productivity
How many meetings per day is too many? According to new research by GitHub, any more than two is enough to have a massive impact on how much quality work your developers can get done – not to mention make…
In the news | ZDNet
Want to keep developers happy and productive? One change to their working day could be the key
Developers working remotely hate disruptions and don’t feel helped when they need to hop on yet another video meeting, Microsoft-owned code sharing site GitHub has found in a small but interesting survey. Most of us know that interruptions can break…
In the news | The GitHub Blog
Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better
So much of our time and energy goes into our work days, and the past year has shown us the importance of balancing work and life when the lines between them blur. Developers want to make their work days better…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s new research lab studies developer productivity and well-being
Microsoft has unveiled a new research initiative designed to “discover, improve, and amplify” developer work and well-being. Announced at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, the new Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) will conduct “socio-technical investigations” spanning productivity, community, and general well-being.