By Vani Mandava, Senior Program Manager; Victor Bahl, Distinguished Scientist; and Alec Wolman, Principal Researcher, all from Microsoft Research In a two-day summit in February that was as much mind meld as conference, 45 PhD candidates from the top computer science departments in the United…
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…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Software verification — the crucial process of assuring programs perform as expected — may not be top of mind for most of us. But considering its role in the development of just about anything based on software — which…
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…
Nobody likes a delay at the airport. Many of us have spent time buckled up, ready for takeoff, wondering why our plane is stuck on its way between the gate and the runway. Scientists in the United Kingdom are working hard to help untangle these…
Pegasus II mission update: as the payload was preparing to launch on Tuesday, an air pressure sensor critical in determining altitude, provided faulty readings that resulted in a delay of the launch. The team will address the issue and will attempt to launch Pegasus II…
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…
The 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture happened last December and brought interesting discussions to bear. On the technical side, there were three very inspiring keynote speeches and a number of great presentations. The regular paper presentations were also very diverse, covering all the way from cache design,…
By John Kaiser, Research News Convex optimization, prized for its efficiency and utility in solving small and medium-size problems across multiple disciplines, could soon be extended to handle much larger problems and tasks, such as those found in image and vision processing. Explaining how and…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft For Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research is a magical place. "At Microsoft and the places I was at previously, my work has often been in collaboration with researchers and engineers, so I have benefitted a lot from interacting with and…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Cynthia Dwork, Mary Czerwinski and Sriram Rajamani Three Microsoft researchers have been honored as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing across multiple disciplines. Mary Czerwinski, whose work…
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Project Catapult, a Microsoft…
