By Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Dr. Kuansan Wang is the Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, responsible for overseeing research and innovation in the area of academic services. Photo credit: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures Progress in AI research and applications is exploding, and…
By Daron Green, Managing Director, Microsoft Research The February 2016 winners of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund spoke about their projects at the Summit on Women and IT in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday. Winning projects receive up to US$10,000 to develop and implement initiatives…
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 “spooky action at a distance.” How…
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 Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research To many who swim for exercise, workouts come down to the monotony of doing laps—swimming back and forth in a pool. Over and over. Unlike other exercisers, who can make their routines less of a chore…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures Jeannette M. Wing, Microsoft’s corporate vice president in charge of the company’s basic research laboratories, appeared Wednesday before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. She was speaking at a hearing on Leveraging the…
By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for Research in Water Resources on site at the University of…
By Brian Hillger, Senior Director, C+E Business Planning, Microsoft Based on Microsoft’s extensive experience engaging and working with the academic community, we strongly believe that educational institutions of all types and sizes can benefit from cloud services, for research as well as for teaching and…
By Jessica Watkins, Writer, Microsoft “The scientific endeavour is one of the crowning achievements of humankind, contributing to our culture and civilisation and to improving our quality of life”. The Royal Society Simon Peyton Jones is known for many things – foremost his boundless enthusiasm,…
By George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us -- they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate the information. At ACM CHI…
By Judith Bishop (opens in new tab), Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research A thriving research and development ecosystem relies on connecting innovators with the tools for innovation. When we launched the Microsoft Open Source Challenge (opens in new tab) earlier this year, that’s just…
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…
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