Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The company is testing underwater data centers with an eye to reducing data latency for the many users who live close to the sea and also to enable rapid deployment of a data center.
Yu Zheng, a researcher at Microsoft, told China Daily that technology companies like Microsoft ‘can leverage their computing infrastructures, data management, analytics tools and knowledge in data science to help forecast air pollution.’
The global digital assembly line has arrived. Its workers labor at computer keyboards, performing the behind-the-scenes tasks that make the Internet appear intelligent and functional.
Communications of the ACM interviewed Fei-Fei Li, Rob Fergus, Richard Zemel and Xiaodong He on recent progress in computer vision and language processing, interview highlighted in “Seeing More Clearly” in the January 2016 issue of…
For the 2009 paper, ‘Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.’
The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List will name 2,000 of the world’s top-cited research scholars from the fields of artificial intelligence over the next ten years (2020 – 2029).
Among Simonâs technical contributions to language design is leading work in monadic I/O, type classes, generalized abstract data types, composable transactional memory, generic programming via ‘scrap your boilerplate’, advances in type inference, and more.
Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the…
His ‘Mining Quality Phrases from Massive Text Corpora’ research was a Round Four winner.
