News and Awards

For the paper, ‘ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing.’

Ravindran Kannan wins the Donald E. Knuth Prize (2011) for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is awarded for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended…

Nana technology could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work

With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the…

Steve Hodges and Andrew Fitzgibbon was awarded the ISMAR 2021 Impact Paper Award for the paper they published 10 years ago. It was the second most highly cited ISMAR paper.

Scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have come up with a new system that uses the human body as an antenna.

For the paper, ‘FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees.’

The IEEE Masaru Consumer Electronics award is a Technical Field Award given annually by the IEEE Board of Directors “to recognize outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology”. Sullivan received this award in…

The Xbox team worked with one of the company’s senior researchers, Ivan Tashev, to “purify” the audio signal and allow our speech-recognition platform to do its job despite the often spacious and noisy characteristics of…

Users are reluctant to use ‘sleep’ features because they break network operations, so Microsoft’s LiteGreen puts machine to sleep without any disruption.