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  1. Microsoft Quantum Challenge results are in! 

    May 16, 2016

    By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research Throughout his life, Albert Einstein, who pioneered the theory of relativity, was skeptical about quantum computing. He was of the opinion that the quantum mechanical theory was incomplete, and was ā€œspooky action at a distance.ā€ How…

  2. Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society 

    May 2, 2016

    By Jessica Watkins, Writer, Microsoft ā€œThe scientific endeavour is one of the crowning achievements of humankind, contributing to our culture and civilisation and to improving our quality of lifeā€. The Royal Society Simon Peyton Jones is known for many things – foremost his boundless enthusiasm,…

  3. Opening the world of advanced software technology 

    March 3, 2016

    By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research In the world of information technology, the word ā€œopenā€ 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…

  4. Best of both worlds: one researcher’s dual approach 

    February 25, 2016

      Who walks away from success? In his decade with Microsoft Research, Sumit Gulwani enjoyed a self-described ā€œblissfulā€ tenure, co-authoring more than 100 papers and giving dozens of keynotes and lectures—so why, then, would he leave? ā€œResearch alone is not a sustainable growth model,ā€ said…

  5. Convex optimization highlights ICCV program session 

    December 11, 2015

    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…

  6. ACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists 

    December 8, 2015

    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…

  7. Microsoft Student Summer Camp embodies the hacker spirit 

    September 10, 2015

    Twenty years ago, the film Hackers gave that term a shady, illicit meaning. Now, geeks around the world are taking back the term “hacker,” restoring its original connotations of creativity and intellectual curiosity. Nowhere was that restoration more apparent than at the Microsoft Student Summer…

  8. 2015 Faculty Summit informs and inspires 

    July 15, 2015

    The 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is over, but I am still recovering my voice from all the great hallway conversations! The summit reminded my fellow Microsoft researchers, our myriad collaborators in academia, and me of what we have already accomplished and the exciting opportunities…

  9. Young coders compete in 2015 Beauty of Programming 

    July 10, 2015

    On May 27, 2015, Suzhou, a historic, scenic city in southeast China, hosted this year’s finals of the Beauty of Programming (BoP) competition, a creative contest among talented young programmers. Sponsored by Microsoft in collaboration with IEEE, BoP encourages contestants to use their programming skills…