12. To manufacture and operate
environmentally sustainable,
prepackaged datacenter units that
can be ordered to size, rapidly
deployed, and left to operate
lights out on the seafloor for years.
P R O J E C T N AT I C K ’ S G O A L
14. Datacenter is about 12m long and 3m wide,
about the size of a shipping container
12 racks of 864 standard Microsoft datacenter servers
with FPGA acceleration and 27.6 petabytes of disk
100% locally-produced, renewable electricity
from solar, off-shore, tide, and wave energy
It took less than 90 days to deploy
from factory ship to operation
They expect it to run for 5 years
C U R R E N T S TAT U S
19. O P T I M I S T I C A N D
I N C L U S I V E I N N O VAT I O N
20.
21. I N S P I R AT I O N F O R T H E X B O X A D A P T I V E C O N T R O L L E R
Video game
accessibility
Controller
modification
22. Kinect motion-sensing
technology in controller to
track gamer movements
H O W T H E X B O X A D A P T I V E C O N T R O L L E R E V O LV E D
Allow users with mobility
needs to plug in additional
buttons and switches
Copilot feature in
Xbox which allows two
controllers to act as one
2015 2016
23. “We’re not trying to design for all of us,
we’re trying to design for each of us.”
Bryce Johnson
Senior Inclusivity Designer, Xbox
30. The FDA-cleared 3D image segmentation app
Efficient segmentation
of anatomy and pathology
FDA 510(k) clearance received on
Dec 28th for a class II medical device.
Clearance received in 39 working days,
no questions asked, a very rare event.
Live demo
34. AI apps & agents Knowledge mining Machine learning
35. MSR Beijing
MSR Cambridge
MSR Redmond MSR Montreal
MSR New EnglandMSR New York
Fueled by Microsoft breakthrough research
96% on RESNET
vision test
94.9% on
Switchboard test
89.4% on Stanford
CoQA test
69.9% with MT
Research system
39.5 Teraflops with
Intel Stratix 10
MSR India
MSR Shanghai
Machine translation
human parity
Object detection
human parity
Switchboar
d
Switchbo
ard
cellular
Meeting
speech
IBM
Switchboard
Broadcast
speech
Speech recognition
human parity
Conversational Q&A
human parity
First FPGA deployed
in a datacenter
36. 280K
Ad Insight
recommendations daily
4.1M
PowerPoint Designer
slides used in a day
Tested at scale in Microsoft solutions
6M
Personalized experiences
delivered daily
Machine translation
human parity
Object detection
human parity
Switchboard
Switchboard cellular
Meeting
speech
IBM Switchboard
Broadcast speech
Speech recognition
human parity
Conversational Q&A
human parity
First FPGA deployed
in a datacenter
37. The most comprehensive pre-trained AI
Language
Vision
Speech
Decision
Web search
Bing Spell Check
Custom
Vision
Personalizer
Form Recognizer
Neural Text-to-Speech
Anomaly Detector
Content
Moderator
Content Moderator
Custom Speech
Speech transcription
Text-to-Speech
Conversation
transcription capability
Face
Video
Indexer
Ink Recognizer
Computer
Vision Language
Understanding
QnA Maker
Text Analytics
Translator Text
Bing Web
Search
Bing Custom
Search
Bing
Video Search
Bing Image Search
Bing
Local Business
Search
Bing Visual Search
Bing Entity Search
Bing News
Search
Bing Autosuggest
43. W H AT I S Q U A N T U M C O M P U T I N G ?
Processes data faster
than classical computers
Solve global
scale challenges
Potential to reshape
the world we live in