Announcing the winners of the Microsoft Quantum Challenge
A grad student who hadn’t worked on a quantum simulator before found the tool he needed to solve a real problem and win the Quantum Challenge. Learn more about his work and how the finalists seized the...
View ArticleSupporting positive change for women in technology careers starts within...
Learn how Microsoft Research and the National Center for Women & Information Technology are working with U.S. academic institutions to develop and implement initiatives that recruit and retain...
View ArticleThe next phase of Microsoft Academic: Intelligent bots at your service
Artificial intelligence bots that read, classify, and tag every document published to the web in real time are growing the massive collection of academic knowledge, called Microsoft Academic Graph, by...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research receives IEEE Council honor
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers present ways for securing technology old and new
Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to better secure both the latest, cutting-edge consumer technologies and the more traditional tools that we rely on for everyday activities like accessing bank...
View ArticleLatin American Faculty Summit showcases AI research, emphasizes why it matters
Some 200 scholars, scientists, and researchers attended this year's Latin American Faculty Summit, which showcased advancements in AI technology while highlighting the specific quality-of-life...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Jeannette M. Wing to judge $100 million MacArthur Foundation...
Microsoft's Jeannette M. Wing will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition to award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people,...
View ArticleHow web search data might help diagnose serious illness earlier
The potential of using engagement with search engines to predict an eventual pancreatic cancer diagnosis –- and possibly buy critical time for a medical response -- is demonstrated in a new study by...
View ArticleFiring up next-generation data scientists
The global Data Science Student Challenge gives students -- undergrads and graduate, computer science majors and students from other disciplines -- access to large datasets and Microsoft Azure Machine...
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Introducing Yasuyuki Matsushita: Tackling societal challenges with AI at...
Earlier this year, Microsoft Research announced (opens in new tab) its newest lab in Tokyo, Japan. Today, we are celebrating its grand opening, reinforcing Microsoft Research’s commitment to AI...
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LazyGraphRAG: Setting a new standard for quality and cost
Affordable GraphRAG for every use case The GraphRAG project (opens in new tab) aims to expand the class of questions that AI systems can answer over private datasets by leveraging the implicit...
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Accelerating drug discovery with TamGen: A generative AI approach to...
The Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (opens in new tab) (GHDDI) and Microsoft Research have reached a milestone in tuberculosis (TB) drug research with TamGen (opens in new tab), an open-source...
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Advances in run-time strategies for next-generation foundation models
Groundbreaking advancements in frontier language models are progressing rapidly, paving the way for boosts in accuracy and reliability of generalist models, making them highly effective in specialized...
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MarS: A unified financial market simulation engine in the era of generative...
Introduction Generative foundation models have transformed various domains, creating new paradigms for content generation. Integrating these models with domain-specific data enables industry-specific...
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Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
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. NEW...
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Moving to GraphRAG 1.0 – Streamlining ergonomics for developers and users
Introducing GraphRAG 1.0 Microsoft debuted (opens in new tab) the pre-release version of GraphRAG (opens in new tab) in July 2024 to advance AI use in complex domains. Since that time, we’ve seen...
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PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven...
The challenge of effective prompting AI is reshaping industries—from education to healthcare—thanks to advancements in large language models (LLMs). These models rely on prompts, carefully crafted...
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Research Focus: Week of December 16, 2024
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. NEW...
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AIOpsLab: Building AI agents for autonomous clouds
In our increasingly complex digital landscape, enterprises and cloud providers face significant challenges in the development, deployment, and maintenance of sophisticated IT applications. The broad...
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AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale,...
Over the past year, our work on AutoGen has highlighted the transformative potential of agentic AI and multi-agent applications. Today, we are excited to announce AutoGen v0.4, a significant milestone...
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