Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Meredith Ringel Morris and A.J. Bernheim Brush of Microsoft along with their co-author Brian R. Meyers received the 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) at the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on…
Ant Rowstron received the 2016 Mark Weiser Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). The annual award, notes SIGOPS, honors an individual who has demonstrated…
For HoloLens, a mixed reality headset that places holograms in your immediate environment, Dr. Ivan Tashev’s team worked on a sound system that creates the illusion of 3D audio to bring virtual objects to life.
On Tuesday, a team of scientists from Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s research lab in Beijing, China, announced the public release of technology designed to help computers conceptualize in a humanlike fashion. The Microsoft Concept Graph,…
An interactive experience of artwork augmented with sound that allows one to ‘hear’ a large format drawing. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon, who is legally blind, debuted an installation with innovative research from Microsoft that…
The team behind the Oregon Project have created an art installation that allows people who are visually impaired (and those who aren’t) to ‘hear’ a painting.
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world’s most efficient hard drive.
Sound propagation in games is usually modeled with tricks and manual markup work. Gears of War 4 uses Project Triton to perform physical analysis of an entire video game level with its materials to calculate…
A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New…