I work for another company at that time was an advocacy, a lobbyist like an opportunity working campaigns. I worked on capitol hill, or for governor and are the pleasure to work for a company and i really think it makes contributions to society. Host microsoft seems to be researching. Is that a Fair Assessment . Guest from my perspective i think weve always been kind of flying high and doing some outstanding things. I think its been an exciting time with microsoft what comes to the cloud we want to be unintelligent edge of one of our missions is to empower persons and organizations on the planet to achieve more. I think youll find today as you go to different displays we have 1212, with Microsoft Research since 1991. What youre going to see as result of drone, such as, some efficiencies of help make a difference for farmers and also using tv white spaces which is something the sec is looking at. To help farmers to be more efficient and effective and as a result also be able to do thing
Their lobbying efforts and to learn what is happening in microsofts research labs. Now in the communicator wes want to introduce you to fred hem fry, the Vice President for government afared for the microsoft corporation. Mr. Humphrey, with that title, what your duty . Im the ambassador for microsoft when it comes to Public Policy, innovation and technology. Grew up on capitol hill and participated in Community Activities when it comes to talking about technology. What are some of the issues where microsoft was intersecting with Public Policy. Guest we are intersecting when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, when you think about those policy issues, and think about vehicles or research and development, highskilled immigration, take note of different individual participating today and part of our microsoft research. A lot of them are highskilled visa holders who are making a difference and making many contributions to not only the u. S. But to the world when it comes to innovation and
Get things done. Alisa global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Johnson, in for emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. More problems for over including for uber, including a criminal investigation. Plus, amazon and microsoft taking the lead. We will hear from top executives at each firm. And a japanese billionaire and the founder of softbank, his first break and how he closed the investment of a lifetime with jack ma. First, our lede, the continuing saga of ubers legal troubles. The Company Facing two additional criminal investigations. Eric newcomer uncovered the scope. He joins us now. When i saw the notes this morning, im like, really, havent we done this already . Ive got to think the Legal Department at uber is feeling the same way. Eric it takes a long time for things to wind their way through. We knew about three criminal probes before. We are
Epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. Theyre difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. How do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola . Its a very hard thing to do. So we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. They bite everything from animals from amphibians and reptiles all the way up to humans and chickens. Host so why would microsoft be working on a project like that . Guest well, when we think about Machine Learning, when we think about robotics, one of the things we want to understand is what how is it going to be useful. And disease epidemics are an example where we know getting the right data is incredibly challenging, analyzing the data is incredibly challenging, so we believe there are some important Inflection Points. Host all right. Walk us
Artificial intelligence. When you think about how many vehicles, research and development. You talk about high skilled immigration and different individuals that, in our research. A lot of them are these upholders who are making many contributions to the u. S. And the world when it comes to innovation and technology. We are going to be talking about we have not talked about it much yet. Ai is in the early stages. One of our main goals is to innovate. When we talk about Machine Learning and aii think it is it going that we get and we are doing the educating. At the federal level and at the state level so that they have a understanding to see how ai can make a difference. Recently met neutrality has been in the news, what is microsoft stance . To see what happens with the chairman of the fcc. We are for net neutrality. Like that as a title to function is going away. Yes, we have concerns as do many other in the industry. I think you will see a lot of associations that companies are part