A lap around the innovation gen and current projects at Microsoft

3. 1975

4. BASIC
Interpreter
No code
No market
No hardware
B I G B E T S

5. Computer on every desk
in every home

6. $12 BILLIONInvested yearly in research and development

7. Human Machine
Interaction
Artificial Intelligence Quantum
Sustainability computing

10. B O L D I N N O VAT I O N

11. Shift to
the cloud
Increased
demand for
data centers
Cooling is
expensive
H O W P R O J E C T N AT I C K S TA R T E D

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

13. Leverage technology
from submarines
Complex data
management
and processing
technologies
Strict requirements
for electricity, volume,
weight, thermal
balance, and cooling

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

15. Project Silica

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

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

24. “Microsoft has created the
most accessible gaming
controller ever made”

25. “Microsoft has created the
most accessible gaming
controller ever made”
T R U S T I N N O VAT I O N

26. Time | Attention | Personal Info | Privacy
I N N O VAT I O N S A R E B U I LT O N T R U S T

27. W H AT I N S P I R E D I N N E R E Y E
Large number of scans
Labor-intensive
Half of us over
the age of 60 will
develop cancer
in our lifetimes

28. AI + Machine learning
Integrated into third-party software
I N N E R E Y E T E C H N O L O G Y

29. The machine learning models we are building
Microsoft Azure
InnerEye segmentation services
BrainML.Glioblastoma
BrainML.LowGradeGlioma
HeadNeckML
ThoraxML.Lungs
AbdomenML.Liver
AbdomenML.Kidneys
PelvisML.Spine
…
Medical components, paid services
PelvisML.Prostate
Input: MR
High/low grade gliomas
Oedema
Necrosis
Longitudinal analysis …
Input: CT
Parotid glands
Spinal cord
Mandible …
Input: CTA
Left/right parenchymas
Collecting systems
Arteries, Veins
Masses …
Input: CT
Prostate
Seminal vesicles
Left/right femurs
Rectum
Bladder …
Input: CT
Spine…
Input: CT
Liver
Masses…

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

31. Machine
Teaching

33. Language
Vision
Speech
Decision
Web search

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

39. Skype
Telegram
Slack
Teams
FB Messenger
Cortana
Alexa
Google Assistant
Web
iOS App
Android App
Channels
Sports Data Cache
Sports Data
Match Subscribers
Data Azure
Content
Moderation
Text
Analytics
Language
Understanding
Bing
Spell Check
Microsoft Bot
Framework
Azure Bot
Service
Power BI
Azure Functions

42. S C A L E I N N O VAT I O N

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

44. Scalable Quantum
Computer
Full Stack Approach
Topological Qubit
O U R A P P R O A C H

45. Leveraging quantum
computing today
1. Quantum inspired optimization
2. Quantum developer kit with Q#
3. Free developer training tools

46. Human Machine
Interaction
Artificial Intelligence Quantum
Sustainability computing

47. Microsoft Innovations
“Ours is not an
industry that
respects tradition;
it only respects
innovation.”
Satya Nadella