Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning – they turned to Microsoft Research both to leverage the incredible work done in the organization as well as to help co-create a vision for what Excel should look like years into the future. The Excel team has built multiple long-term relationships with labs in Cambridge, China, and Redmond working in areas across data types, programming languages, analytics, web architecture, and error detection, many of which employ artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning. Not only