News and Awards

For contributions to algorithms and interfaces for interactive information retrieval.

The Inaugural Biofabricate Summit that took place on December 4th, 2014 was the first event to focus on commercial, artistic and research the disruptive technologies that comprise the emerging field of grown materials.

The way one artist put it to me, if you think of Microsoft as a city, Microsoft Research is the university.

UW Electrical Engineering Affiliate Professor Henrique (Rico) Malvar received an IEEE 20th Century Landmark Award for his contributions to multiresolution signal processing and media compression standards.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from academia and industry have launched the second iteration of a community challenge that aims to evaluate the performance of methods of computing securely on genomic data in remote environments…

As a basic principle, science is self-correcting. Therefore, it’s essential to be able to find and identify mistakes and it’s equally important not to let errors accumulate.

Today Turing’s idea has become an important starting point for thinking about systems that build themselves from a basic set of parts.

Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound.’

Microsoft’s 3D audio technology means that the sound is directional, so if the attraction in question is several metres ahead to the right, the sound will appear to come from that direction.

These abstract artworks weren’t created by an artist — they were painted by an algorithm. These abstract artworks weren’t created by an artist — they were painted by an algorithm.