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This is a bold experiment that will equip thousands of Berkeley students across campus with a fundamental education in data-driven thinking empowered by advanced statistical and computational techniques.

In the pockets of millions and on desktops worldwide, female voices are driving a quiet revolution that appears unstoppable. Is this another step towards gender parity, or does it reinforce outdated attitudes about women?

Microsoft scientist Ranveer Chandra has done research in data-driven farming, focusing on drone imaging and rural connectivity. ‘We are facing the enormous challenge of doubling the world’s food production by 2050 without an increase in…

With this workshop, the Swiss JRC kicked off 10 projects, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft. These projects were chosen from 20 proposals assessed by the Swiss JRC steering…

With AirSim, users can safely test their autonomous solutions without worrying about any real-world damage. Once they feel their solution is ready, they move on to real-world testing.

Healthcare NExT, a new initiative to dramatically transform health care, will deeply integrate greenfield research and health technology product development, as well as establish a new model at Microsoft for strategic health industry partnerships.

A team of researchers at Microsoft have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real…

When most people with normal vision walk down the street, they can easily differentiate the things they must avoid – like trees, curbs and glass doors — from the things they don’t, such as shadows,…

Indrani Medhi Thies received the 2017 Social Impact Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, which recognizes individuals who apply human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs.…

This new collaboration builds on previous efforts between Microsoft and NSF, and the Azure platform has added significant functionality and resources in recent years, including massive investments in open source and advanced data and intelligence…