Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft’s new SongSmith software can fill out the harmonies. As software developed by Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith uses artificial intelligence to generate an accompaniment to vocals you sing into your PC’s microphone.
On January 7, 2009, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for the development of the H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, a project led…
Songsmith joins together the two loves of Dan Morris at Microsoft Research: music and computer science.
For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.
In 2009, Gary J. Sullivan received the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Electrical Engineering of the University of Louisville J. B. Speed School of Engineering (his alma mater institution where he had received his…
Gary J. Sullivan was named a Fellow of the SPIE in 2009 “For specific achievements in video and image compression technologies.”
Buxton’s influence has been enormous. His contributions to the field of human-computer interaction start with music: coupling sound, music, and computers through tools, instruments, and even score editors.
In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area, Research in…
