Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing,…
Faculty Summit 2016 – Machine Reading for Science and Society
Machine reading automates knowledge extraction from text. Traditional machine learning methods are hindered by the scarcity of annotated examples, which motivates the development of modern approaches that leverage “free lunches” such as existing ontologies and…
Faculty Summit 2016 – How to Keep your Genome Secret
Over the last 10 years, the cost of sequencing the human genome has come down to around $1,000 per person. Human genomic data is a gold-mine of information, potentially unlocking the secrets to human health…
Faculty Summit 2016 – Computational Problems in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Molecular biology, healthcare and medicine have been slowly morphing into large-scale, data driven sciences dependent on machine learning, natural language processing, applied statistics, privacy and security, compression and efficient search. For example, drug development timelines…
Executable network models to identify new treatment combinations for leukaemia
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) represents a paradigm for the wider cancer field. Despite the fact that tyrosine kinase inhibitors have established targeted molecular therapy in CML, patients often face the risk of developing drug resistance,…
Canine Aging: Can Old Dogs Teach us New Tricks?
The domestic dog is the most phenotypically variable species in the world. Breeds vary dramatically not only in shape, size and behavior, but also in patterns of aging and age-related disease. Dogs share our environment,…