Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The Project Sopris team has tested different approaches to device security from silicon to software and have found optimal device security must be rooted in hardware but kept up-to-date through evolving software.
Microsoft researchers have identified seven properties of highly secure devices, and describe their experiments towards designing microcontroller-based prototype devices adapted from the Mediatek MT7687 MIPS microcontroller.
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship (opens in new tab) award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition…
Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.
A. J. Brush received the 2017 Alumni Achievement Award (opens in new tab) from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Brush is a human-computer interaction researcher with a…
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (opens in new tab) honored Jonathan Carlson with an inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award for his leading role in research that leveraged machine learning and the trials network’s data to show…
Haiyan Zhang has created a life-changing device for a woman with Parkinson’s disease.
A team of Microsoft researchers and designers in the company’s Cambridge, UK, lab has created what they are calling a physical programming language—a way for kids to physically create code by connecting pods together to…
SXSW Innovation Awards: Sci Fi No Longer. Awarded for the coolest scientific achievement or discovery that before was only possible in science fiction.
Microsoft researchers have shown that numbers become much easier to grasp — and remember — when the words “to put this in perspective” are coupled with a familiar reference.