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Using web search data to predict serious illnesses
Microsoft researchers suggest records of the topics people search for on the Internet could one day prove as useful as an X-ray or MRI in detecting some illnesses before it’s too late.
Machine learning and AI
The next phase of Microsoft Academic: Intelligent bots at your service
Artificial intelligence bots that read, classify, and tag every document published to the web in real time are growing the massive collection of academic knowledge, called Microsoft Academic Graph, by one million articles per week.
Data science
Preventing flood disasters with Cortana Intelligence Suite
Learn how Cortana Intelligence Suite is being used to help researchers, federal agencies, commercial partners, and first responders close the gap between national flood forecasting and local emergency response.
Open source AI
CNTK, Microsoft's open source deep learning toolkit, gets performance boost in version 1.5 update
Version 1.5 of the Computational Network Toolkit released June 10 introduces a new parallelism technique, an updated network description language and a revamped I/O architecture. Learn more and download it from GitHub.
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