By Xin Ma, University Relations Regional Manager of China, Microsoft Research Asia Guardian to Future Generations: 10-Year Quest for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Supporting development of local talent has long been part of Microsoft’s commitment to Chinese education. I joined the Academic Cooperation Department of Microsoft…
By Kenji Takeda, Solution Architect and Technical Manager, Microsoft Research Jacob Katuva used to get up at dawn to cycle 12 miles from his village to collect water with his uncles and cousins when he was growing up in Kenya. Now he is part of…
By Kuansan Wang, Director, Internet Services Research Center, Microsoft Research Anyone reading the program for the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) would find it obvious that web innovation, powered by passionate scientists, users, and developers, continues to accelerate. At WWW this week, Microsoft Research…
By Kuansan Wang, Director, Internet Services Research Center, Microsoft Research Anyone reading the program for the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) would find it obvious that web innovation, powered by passionate scientists, users, and developers, continues to accelerate. At WWW this week, Microsoft Research…
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When we focus on people first, great projects and new technologies can’t be far behind. This perspective guides Microsoft Research’s activities in every region, and Korea is no exception. Our very first partnership discussions in Korea…
By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research In the world of information technology, the word “open” can mean many different things. For me, it refers to how software is both written and used, throughout its lifetime. At Microsoft Research, I am fortunate to…
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Think Bolder, Aim Higher” is a mantra I’ve been chanting since my arrival at Microsoft three years ago. I’ve wanted to encourage our scientists and engineers to…
Who walks away from success? In his decade with Microsoft Research, Sumit Gulwani enjoyed a self-described “blissful” tenure, co-authoring more than 100 papers and giving dozens of keynotes and lectures—so why, then, would he leave? “Research alone is not a sustainable growth model,” said…
As our lives become increasingly conducted online, the growth rate of data recording our daily activities has exploded. These records, which range from the details of our online social engagements to the graphs gathered by major search engine companies representing a snapshot of our collective…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer at Microsoft When Yong Rui first began doing computer vision research in 1995, the Internet was still in its infancy and the idea of using technology to automatically search for images seemed almost absurd. “That [notion] was really quite advanced at the…
By Xin Ma, Regional University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research was held on November 27 in Beijing, China. Professors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore gathered at this first annual event to present their work and…
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to announce the selected PhD projects…
