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Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model and a new public dataset
It was crunch time, just as it had been many times before in the preceding weeks. Such is the nature of real-time competition. The yearlong Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo was being sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation and the National…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog
Is drought on the horizon? Researchers turn to AI in a bid to improve forecasts
As winter drags on, some people wonder whether to pack shorts for a late-March escape to Florida, while others eye April temperature trends in anticipation of sowing crops. Water managers in the western U.S. check for the possibility of early-spring…
In the news | Wired
When Algorithms Think You Want to Die
Opinion: Social media platforms not only host troubling images of suicide and self-harm, they end up recommending it to the people most vulnerable to it.
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Puts More Brain-Power Into Machine Learning For Azure Cloud
The advancements that now come forward in this part of Microsoft’s ML brain play result in part from experimentation carried out by Nicolo Fusi, who works in the automated machine learning research team at Microsoft Research.
Awards | Bloomberg
E. Glen Weyl recognized as a Bloomberg 50 2018
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and founder of the non-profit RadicalXchange Foundation. Glen was recognized with Eric Posner as a Bloomberg 50 2018 for their unique ideas to harness market forces to achieve social good.…
In the news | Slate
Facebook’s Blueprint Needs a Blueprint
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for an independent council to review controversial content moderation decisions leaves some important questions unanswered.
In the news | ZDNet
Power BI delivers AI power
Microsoft’s self-service BI tool will soon let business analysts build and use machine learning models, with minimal expertise, and no code. Access to Azure Cognitive Services and models hosted in Azure Machine Learning, as well as a new feature that…
In the news | Slate
A Little Less Conversation
Some people thought the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable might bring world peace, because connecting humans could only lead to better understanding and empathy. That wasn’t the outcome—and recent utopian ideas about communication have also met with a darker reality.
Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Episode 45, October 10, 2018 – Dr. Chayes shares her passion for the value of undirected inquiry, talks about her unlikely journey from rebel to researcher, and explains how she believes her research philosophy – more botanist than boss –…