Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
As genome research – and the genomes themselves – get passed around the scientific community, the world’s woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published…
Microsoft released a ‘manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,’ which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have…
Previous reports have pointed the finger at the healthcare sector as being woefully unprepared for the modern age of Internet-enabled devices that are always online and present a constant danger to the patient, hospital, and…
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award (opens in new tab) for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction)…
Eric Horvitz was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Sustained Accomplishment Award (opens in new tab) for his long-standing contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and demonstrated vision…
Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández along with Elena Agapie received the Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2015) Best Paper Award for work on Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds…
By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable…
Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.
A new Microsoft Research project could result in a laptop battery that lasts a lot longer.
