Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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…
In a world where humanity put a man on the moon before adding wheels to luggage, the rapid advancements in AI seem almost paradoxical. Microsoft’s chief data scientist Juan Lavista, in a recent Global Stage conversation…
Grounding AI models is like giving them a map to navigate the world, but what happens when that map isn’t up to date or misses crucial details? That’s the problem hyperscalers and AI leaders are…
Scientists are opening generative AI’s black box and beginning to understand the models’ inner workings. Why it matters: The prospect of harnessing genAI to make decisions and perform tasks is pushing researchers to better understand…
Artificial intelligence could put us on the path to a booming economic future, but getting there will take some serious course corrections. When Chad Syverson loads the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website these days…
As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western United States, enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain livestock, the barbed and woven wire fences…
Bhaskar Mitra recently received the ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Awards for the following two categories: Excellence in Research: “For high-impact work, including research in neural IR and the establishing the MS-MARCO ranking benchmark” and…
Redmond opens up to discuss its new tool, which can extract data from unstructured text using large language models. Microsoft’s GraphRAG is a new approach to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that Redmond has described a “significant…
VentureBeat announced the winners of the sixth annual Women in AI Awards yesterday at VB Transform. The “Rising Star” award honors a woman in the early stage of her AI career who has demonstrated exemplary…
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon…
