Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Simon Peyton Jones (opens in new tab) elected Fellow of the Royal Society (opens in new tab) for his pioneering work on functional programming languages and as lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and for…
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile…
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane…
New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made…
IT’S ALMOST A given that you’ll ride in an autonomous car at some point in your life, and when you do, the AI controlling it just might have honed its skills playing Minecraft.
Gears of War 4 will be the first game in the world to use Triton, a sound technology that accurately maps sound in 3D spaces.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/news/2016/apr/deans-research-prize-2016
Cryptography could enforce limits on data collected for surveillance data while still permitting agencies to do their jobs, argues a Microsoft researcher.
Chandra’s first revelation was that farmers could use television white spaces — TV frequencies that aren’t being used in rural areas and can be accessed for wireless Internet connectivity.
Microsoft’s CaptionBot uses computer vision and natural language processing to describe any photo, just as a human would.
