Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Sebastian Nowozin received the 2016 German Pattern Recognition Award (opens in new tab) on September 13 at the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (opens in new tab) for his development of machine learning models and algorithms suitable for…
Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and…
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper…
Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system. Director of the Polling Institute…
Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.
Computer programs often reflect the biases of their very human creators, but Microsoft researcher Adam Kalai’s latest project â a joint effort with Boston University â has focused on a solution called word embedding.
Mary shares some great experiences about her role as a manager and how she plays this out practically in enabling and protecting people, and establishing a culture in a group. She also talks about some…
Samin Ishtiaq will be receiving the 2016 CAV Award (opens in new tab) for the development of Separation Logic and for demonstrating its applicability in the automated verification of programs that mutate data structures. He…
Even before Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon first laid hands on a computer in college in 1981, he already imagined a future where systems could answer any question posed by humans.
