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 vision of the so-called internet of things — giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover — has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast.
When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing that is behind that instant…
Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile…
A breakthrough in sound engineering models how sound moves through any environment in Gears of War 4.
The work we do these days on F* is often in service of Project Everest. The goal of Everest is to verify and deploy a drop-in replacement for the HTTPS stack, the protocol using which…
Venkat Padmanabhan received the 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (opens in new tab) for Engineering Sciences from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research India for his pioneering work on indoor localization, smartphone-based sensing and mobile communication.…