News and Awards

Antonio Criminisi along with Peter Kontschieder, Madalina Fiterau, and Samuel Rota Bulo were awarded the Marr Prize (opens in new tab) at ICCV 2015 for their award-winning paper, Deep Neural Decision Forests. Their research showed that by…

Sudipta Sengupta named IEEE Fellow (opens in new tab) for contributions to network design, routing and applications to Internet backbone, data centers, and peer-to-peer systems.

Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance. Microsoft’s new approach to…

Advances in cognitive computing—machines programmed to improve modeling on their own—allow more sophisticated forecasting software to provide predictions for the air quality index.

Sriram Rajamani has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >

Cynthia Dwork has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her significant contributions to the science of database privacy, cryptography, and distributed computing. Read more >

Mary Czerwinski has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to human-computer interaction and leadership in the CHI community. Read more >

Sriram Rajamani was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (opens in new tab) for his contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >

The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.

Kristin Lauter was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community.”