What an exciting two days at the Second Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More than 70 participants from 10 countries gathered together for two intense days of panels, discussions and planning and walked away with a significant milestone: the first draft…
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and research community stakeholders joined Microsoft Research for inspirational keynotes, workshops…
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are designed to help promising young researchers focus on their studies,…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer & George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Yuval Peres and Robert Schapire, two Microsoft researchers known for their groundbreaking achievements in their respective fields, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The two researchers are among 84 new members…
By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Not in my lifetime.” That’s what I said when I was asked whether we would ever see computer science taught in K-12. It was 2009, and I was addressing a gathering of attendees to a workshop…
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…
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 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…
As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn’t count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government’s Winds Aloft program—have been based largely on data from instrumented weather balloons released…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research At 5:46 p.m. on Sept. 20, Georges Gonthier, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, sent a brief email to his colleagues at the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre in Paris. It read, in full: “This is really the End.”…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research On Nov. 22, in a Parisian ceremony at the Institut de France, Georges Gonthier, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, was awarded the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science. The award, established in 2007 by…
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Each summer, Microsoft Research facilities from around the world welcome a fresh crop of interns. Microsoft Research considers the intern program a vital part of its interactions with the academic world, with some facilities increasing their head count by…
