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  1. Vision of AIOps Research with four quadrants (starting in the top left and proceeding clockwise): Autonomous, Proactive, Manageable, Comprehensive

    Building toward more autonomous and proactive cloud technologies with AI 

    April 10, 2023

    In the first blog post in this series, Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems, we presented a brief overview of Microsoft’s research on Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps), which innovates AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to help design, build, and operate complex cloud…

  2. AI and the future of health - female doctor reviewing tablet

    AI and the Future of Health 

    March 30, 2023 | Desney Tan

    Read about some of our research team’s work to make healthcare more data-driven, predictive, and precise – ultimately, empowering every person on the planet to live a healthier future.

  3. Microsoft Research Focus 12 edition, week of March 27, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of March 27, 2023 

    March 29, 2023

    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. Machine translation (MT) models are designed to learn from large amounts of data collected from real-world sources. However,…

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    AI Explainer: Foundation models ​and the next era of AI 

    March 23, 2023 | Ahmed Awadallah

    The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions—from summarizing lengthy documents, to answering complex questions…

  5. Microsoft Research Focus 11 edition, week of March 06, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of March 6, 2023 

    March 8, 2023

    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. Attack methods like Spectre (opens in new tab) exploit speculative execution, one of the key performance optimizations of…

  6. Microsoft Research Focus 10 edition, week of February 20, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023 

    February 22, 2023

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making, where an agent interacts with a stochastic environment to perform…

  7. Microsoft Research Focus 09 edition, week of February 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023 

    February 8, 2023

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the Tech, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott is joined by Tobi Lütke,…

  8. Microsoft Research Focus 08 edition, week of January 23

    Research Focus: Week of January 23, 2023 

    January 25, 2023

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Organizations must digitize various documents, many with charts and images, to manage and streamline essential functions. Yet…

  9. Terra's logo on a black background with abstract DNA strand pattern

    Biomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure 

    January 25, 2023 | Ilyana Rosenberg, Jer-Ming Chia, and Chaitanya Bangur

    We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease. One of the tools that we believe will help to enable precision…

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    Advancing human-centered AI: Updates on responsible AI research 

    January 12, 2023 | Mihaela Vorvoreanu and Kathy Walker

    Artificial intelligence, like all tools we build, is an expression of human creativity. As with all creative expression, AI manifests the perspectives and values of its creators. A stance that encourages reflexivity among AI practitioners is a step toward ensuring that AI systems are human-centered,…

  11. Microsoft Research - Research Focus 07 Week of January 9, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of January 9, 2023 

    January 11, 2023

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Jan P. Unsleber, Hongbin Liu, Leopold Talirz, Thomas Weymuth, Maximilian Mörchen, Adam Grofe, Dave Wecker, Christopher J.…