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Demonstration of spatial audio techniques during TechFest 2015 – Microsoft Research Labs.

Kristin Lauter is solving a problem you may not even know you have: She’s working to keep your most personal data private and secure.

George Varghese (opens in new tab) received Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (opens in new tab) for his Technology Innovation Excellence.

There are unique challenges posed by cryptography research. This interview examines potential threats to modern security techniques and how to overcome them.

Jade Alglave received the Royal Society’s Brian Mercer Award for Innovation (opens in new tab) for her work on multiprocessor technology, which led to the development of .cat, a standard verification format for hardware chips.

Steve Hodges, head of the sensors and devices group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, wants to make it easy to prototype electronic devices, so he’s found a way to print circuits with an inkjet printer…

Eric Horvitz was awarded the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Feigenbaum Prize (opens in new tab) for his sustained and high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through the development of…

While users are certainly relying more heavily on their devices, some observers hold that until battery capacity and efficiency evolve, mobile devices will fall short of being the command center of users’ lives.

ACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.

Gary J. Sullivan received the Merit Award of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2015. This is an award presented to no more than four participants per year who have demonstrated continuous…