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In the news | Microsoft Stories
Turkish Red Crescent sets sights on new era with Restoring Family Links program through AI
A leading name in humanitarian aid, Turkish Red Crescent is ready to speed up its efforts through Microsoft`s AI for Humanitarian Action, in supporting families to search, reconnect, and reunite with their loved ones or family members who fell out…
In the news | Microsoft Customer Stories
Wildlife Protection Solutions helps protect the wildest places with Microsoft AI for Earth
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) sits in the nexus between the most remote places in the world and burgeoning animal conservation science. It provides the monitoring technology that conservation groups need to keep watch over wild places and protect wildlife. Conservationists…
In the news | EurekAlert
First village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals local disparities
The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with researchers at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard’s Center for Population and Development…
In the news | The Economist
AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
But as the software improves, access to material gets harder.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Microsoft launches Covid-19 vaccine dashboard that tracks administration of vaccines aligned with federal goal
As the world reaches the next stage in our collective fight against Covid-19 with the availability of vaccines, we’ve thrown in our support by mobilizing our AI for Health data science team, in collaboration with Dr. Ashish K. Jha at Brown School…
In the news | NTT Data
NTT DATA Using AI Diagnostic Imaging Technology to Increase Access to Tuberculosis Examinations for 100,000 People in India
NTT DATA Corporation, a leading digital business and IT services provider, in cooperation with the AI for Health1 program from Microsoft Corporation through its strategic investee company DeepTek Medical Imaging Pvt Ltd2 hereinafter referred to as “DeepTek”, in January 2021 began providing…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Tracking the effects of glacial melting
We don’t have time for things to move at a glacial pace, especially with melting ice! Our #AIForGood research lab, @icimod, @Mila_Quebec, and @UWMadison are using #OpenData to monitor glaciers. Check it out.
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Sustainability: A year of progress and a decade of action
One year ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood announced Microsoft’s bold commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove our historic emissions by 2050. This was the beginning of Microsoft raising the bar on…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
One year later: The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’
A year ago, we launched the biggest commitment in Microsoft’s history to focus on the climate crisis. As Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, and I announced last January, Microsoft committed to become carbon negative as a company by 2030 – meaning that by that date we will remove…