Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Li Deng received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition. Read more >
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for research that had long-lasting influence, including…
Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we’re familiar with in the U.S.: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Facebook’s M, Google Now, and Microsoft’s own Cortana.
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist (opens in new tab) for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
Ratul Mahajan selected as 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist (opens in new tab) for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
The healthcare sector gets a hand from Microsoft, who will release a new encryption algorithm which will allow developers to handle genomic data in encrypted format, without the need of decryption, and by doing so,…
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
