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Microsoft built a ‘Plasma Bot’ to tell you if you can donate plasma to help fight COVID-19
Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real chance of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA has issued a broad call…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Helping survivors become heroes
The world is searching for ways to fight COVID-19, leading to a surge of research efforts to create effective therapies. Thankfully, as the human immune system learns to fight off the disease and people recover, we see some very promising…
A. F. Siu (MSR & Stanford), M. Sinclair, R. Kovacs, C. Holz, E. Ofek, and E. Cutrell. Virtual Reality Without Vision: A Haptic and Auditory White Cane to Navigate Complex Virtual Worlds. CHI 2020
Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein
Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually interesting in academic circles. But that didn’t deter Dr. Philip Bernstein, now a Distinguished Scientist in MSR’s Data Management,…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
How international health care organizations are using bots to help fight COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across Europe earlier this year, the number of calls to Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen quickly ramped up. The organization, which provides emergency care for about one-third of Denmark’s population, saw calls to its emergency…
In the news | New York Times
You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.
Advances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute for human creativity.
Bringing virtual reality to people who are blind with an immersive sensory-based system
| Ed Cutrell and Eyal Ofek
Virtual reality (VR) is an incredibly exciting way to experience computing, providing users with intuitive and immersive means of interacting with information that attempts to mirror the way we naturally experience the world around us. In the past few years,…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines
In a [study] (opens in new tab) published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals…
In the news | Providence News
Swedish and Microsoft partner to build the COVID-19 Emergency Response (CERA) app
Like many systems around the nation, Swedish Health Services found itself with overwhelmed with the increasing number of COVID-19 patients. Microsoft and Swedish joined forces over the past two weeks to build an app that helps hospital staff monitor resources…