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Microsoft commits more than $110M in additional support for nonprofits, workers and schools in Washington state
As our community heads into the 10th month of Covid-related shutdowns and restrictions, we must move swiftly to reignite the local economy and ensure the safety of those who are key to the region’s recovery. As part of Microsoft’s continued…
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Microsoft Puts Money, Tech Behind Helping Washington Workers, Nonprofits, Schools
Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. yesterday committed to spending an additional $110 million-plus to help Washington state recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding will go toward paying the wages of local vendors affected by the closure of the company’s massive campus and…
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Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…
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The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Mobilizing AI for Health to fight against COVID-19
Given the urgency the COVID-19 virus has created, we are mobilizing our AI for Health initiative to focus on helping those on the front lines of research of COVID-19. We’re focusing our efforts in five specific areas where we think…
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Summary of JSM 2019 Session on Formal Privacy: Making an Impact at Large Organizations
With the growing amount of data collected every day, data confidentiality is increasingly at risk. Many of the traditional approaches to statistical disclosure control are no longer deemed sufficient to protect the confidentiality of the data. Formal privacy guarantees are…
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Study identifies two distinct subgroups of SUIDs that differ by age
Cases of sudden unexpected infant death, or SUID, that occur at 0 to 6 days differ significantly from cases that occur at days 7 to 364 in regard to factors like live birth order and marital status, according to study…
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Employing data science, new research uncovers clues behind unexplainable infant death
Imagine losing your child in their first year of life and having no idea what caused it. This is the heartbreaking reality for thousands of families each year who lose a child to Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID). Despite decades-long…
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Microsoft, Seattle Children’s Team Up for AI-Powered SIDS Research
Microsoft believes artificial intelligence, or AI, can be a force for good in the world. To prove the point, last September the company started its AI for Humanitarian Action initiative — a $40 million, five-year program to use AI to…