Technology for Emerging Markets
Podcast
Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth
Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the development of vitrimer-based PCBs that perform comparably to traditional PCBs but have less environmental…
Project
Dukawalla
A voice first AI data assistant that enables Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs) to collate their business information, and glean rich insights
Project
AgriAdvisor
An AI copilot that combines gen AI and localized weather data to produce actionable agronomic advice
Project
Modern Work & AI
Understanding the functionality of GenAI amongst small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and in the healthcare sector across Africa
Event
Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR 2024
The Embodied AI 2024 workshop will be held in conjunction with CVPR 2024 in Seattle, Washington. The overarching theme of this year’s workshop is Open World Embodied AI: Being an embodied agent in a world…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of June 10, 2024
In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill
Jacki O’Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O’Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance…
Video
AI For All: Embracing Equity for All
This grand seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in April 2024. It was the second in their grand seminars which brought together people from academia,…
