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In the news | VentureBeat
Why games may not be the best benchmark for AI
Microsoft believes in the power of gaming as a platform for AI, pointing to Project Paidia. “With projects like this, we’re showing how AI is shifting from competitive applications to being used to empower players to achieve more,” Sam Devlin…
In the news | Discover Magazine
Is Holographic Data Storage the Next Big Thing?
Every email you send, every selfie you take, every TikTok video you post adds to the amount of digital data in the world. And that pile of data is growing at an astonishing rate. According to recent estimates, by 2025,…
In the news | Calastone
Calastone announces strategic partnership with Microsoft
Calastone, the largest global funds network, has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft, which will see the firms collaborate on the use of cloud and distributed ledger technology to create market efficiency across the global investment funds industry. By combining…
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some of the world’s most pressing…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Our work was highlighted in the annual “Research at Microsoft 2021” newsletter: “As ML techniques and approaches advance, so does the potential for applications to empower individuals in the workplace and beyond does, too. Research teams are leveraging few-shot learning…
Awards | Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021
Microsoft Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Challenge Winner
Kenji Takeda won either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Executive Challenge. The Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines
Here’s a cooking story unlike any you’ve heard before. That’s because the chefs are chemists, the ingredients are molecules, and the main course is a new medication designed to defeat illness. At least, that’s Luca Finelli’s snackable description to explain…
In the news | Novartis
The art of drug design in a technological age
Novartis is collaborating with Microsoft to apply machine learning to medicinal chemistry — part of an effort to leverage AI to bring treatments to patients more efficiently. There’s a misconception about drug hunting that can mask one of the biggest…
In the news | Fast Company
ImmuneCODE named to Fast Company “Health: Next Big Things in Tech” list
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech – For using data to create a test for past COVID-19 infection | The tech giant teamed up with Adaptive Biotech to create ImmuneCODE, an open-source database of immune responses to COVID-19, which they used to…