COVID-19: Industry News & Response Microsoft Innovation Stories Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks “What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes […]
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Microsoft on the Issues Recovering from the pandemic: what policymakers and experts are saying The world has now lived through half a year in which our normal economic and social existence has been upended by the strange new rules of a global pandemic. It is too soon to say that the
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Microsoft On The Issues New Steps to Combat Disinformation There is no question that disinformation is widespread. Research we supported from Professor Jacob Shapiro at Princeton, updated this month, cataloged 96 separate foreign influence campaigns targeting 30 countries between 2013 and 2019. These campaigns, carried out on social media, sought to defame
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Microsoft Stories Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Roll Call Hospitals eye permanent telehealth expansion with FCC funds Hundreds of hospitals and health care centers from Washington state to Louisiana are expanding telehealth infrastructure thanks to $200 million that Congress appropriated for the Federal Communications Commission in emergency legislation. In some cases, hospitals are supplementing the federal funds from
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Fierce Healthcare How Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft are working to ‘decode” our immune response to COVID-19 Using immuno-sequencing, proprietary computational modeling, and machine learning, the companies began working on an atlas mapping out the interactions between the immune system and multiple diseases. This makes it possible to “read” what an immune
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Associated Press US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Two Russians
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Washington Post U.S. accuses China of sponsoring criminal hackers targeting coronavirus vaccine research U.S. officials accused China on Tuesday of sponsoring criminal hackers who are targeting biotech firms around the world working on coronavirus vaccines and treatments, as the FBI said the Chinese government was acting like “an organized criminal syndicate.”
COVID-19: Industry News & Response Microsoft on the Issues Online civility improved in APAC during COVID-19, declined in Latin America, Microsoft study Teens and adults in the Asia-Pacific region reported an uptick in online civility and more respectful digital interactions during the COVID-19 global pandemic, results from a new Microsoft research study show. Meanwhile, respondents in
COVID-19: Industry News & Response GeekWire Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine
