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The recipient of the ‘HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT’ for 2025 is Susan Dumais 

The HCII2025 Conference is proud to announce Susan Dumais as the 2025 recipient of the ‘HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT’. Susan is a pioneering researcher whose work has reshaped information retrieval, search engines, and human-computer…

“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery 

Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones. Their paper “I-Con: A Unifying Framework for Representation Learning” was accepted to the International…

Optimizing Azure Healthcare Multimodal AI Models for Intel CPU Architecture 

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems 

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of complex reasoning through “inference-time scaling,” a set of techniques that allocate more computational resources during inference to generate answers. However, a new study from Microsoft Research reveals…

Yasuyuki Matsushita receives MEXT Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award 

Recipients have achieved remarkable results in research and development and promotion of understanding of science and technology.

Jim Weinstein discusses health care challenges in U.S. rural areas with NEJM Catalyst 

Disparities include limited access to care, rising mortality rates, and severe staffing shortages.

Microsoft and ITER to harness the power of AI 

Microsoft Research and ITER, who is building the world’s largest fusion reactor, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies to help engineers construct the…