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MINNETONKA, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. (May 15, 2020) – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to launch ProtectWell™, an innovative return-to-workplace protocol that enables employers to bring employees back…

SIGACT has awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize to IQSS faculty affiliate Cynthia Dwork for her impactful work in the field of computer science. The Knuth Prize (opens in new tab) is given annually by…

Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for…

Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it’s made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal…

Microsoft Research & Microsoft AI for Health are pleased to partner with CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) on their AI & COVID-19  Catalyst Grants initiative. The initiative brings together industry, non-profits, governments, researchers and…

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Lebanon has announced the roll out of a Covid-19 Health bot solution for citizens. The Bot has been developed by trakMD in collaboration with Microsoft, the Epidemiological Surveillance…

Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist, received the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize for fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science. Dwork is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists of her generation. Her research has…

COVID-19 brought a sudden—and global—need for people to stay home. This pressed many organizations to support remote work wherever possible, changing the routines and environment of millions of people in a matter of days. This…

Nationwide protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd have underscored the urgency for rethinking policing in the nation, and many of the changes will need to happen at the local level. Understanding…