Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
In June, the journal Nature published a perspective suggesting that the harms of online misinformation have been misunderstood. The paper’s authors, representing four universities and Microsoft, conducted a review of the behavioral science literature and…
What’s next for AI, and what are the main technical hurdles to overcome? That was one of the questions we asked when working on our deep dive into Microsoft’s history and future in artificial intelligence,…
Since the early 1990s, the promise of AI has been a driving force at Microsoft Research, which has a track record of breakthroughs in speech recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and other research that continues…
Improving LLMs’ ability to retrieve in-prompt information can impact important applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and in-context learning (ICL). Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University researchers have introduced Differential Transformer (Diff Transformer), a new LLM architecture that amplifies…
David Baker received the Nobel Prize today for breakthrough work in protein design, on creating new proteins to serve as novel therapies and vaccines. Five years ago, we made the decision to go all-in with…
Microsoft exec and Learn Serve Lead 2024 speaker James Weinstein, DO, says the technology could eventually expand access and quality, but privacy concerns remain. While artificial intelligence (AI) tools are drawing attention for their potential…
Christopher Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, discusses how the deep learning technology that underpins the AI revolution is advancing at an extraordinary pace, with many of the most exciting…
Developing high-quality medicine is a resource-intensive endeavor that requires collaboration across Novo Nordisk. Novo Nordisk aimed to scale a pipeline of drug discovery, development, and data science capabilities with AI and machine learning. In partnership with…
The AI for Science partner research manager received this distinction for the development of machine learning methods for advancing the physical sciences, in particular for the many-body sampling problem and the electronic structure problem.
Forty-seven years after NASA sent a “Golden Record” into deep space to document humanity’s view of the world, Microsoft’s Project Silica is teaming up with a citizen-science effort to lay the groundwork — or, more…
