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  1. Yong Rui wins IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award 

    February 22, 2016

    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…

  2. 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…

  3. Obama discusses innovation and STEM education 

    October 15, 2015

    Christine Clifton-Thornton, senior writer for Research News, asked the President to write an article on STEM education. His response follows. America’s drive to tinker, invent, and push the boundaries of what’s possible sets us apart—and we have a lot to show for it.  Scientific advances,…

  4. 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…

  5. “Beauty of Programming”—delighting in the art of coding 

    June 27, 2014

    What is the “beauty of programming”? In our eyes, it is the act of creating a program that is in itself beautiful—a program that uses sophisticated algorithms to solve real problems, meeting the user’s needs while ensuring the best experience in the least amount of…

  6. Shotton Receives Young Researcher Accolade 

    June 26, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies In early June, Jamie Shotton received a most welcome email from Ramin Zabih, professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and chair of the IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee.Zabih had the responsibility to let a gifted young…

  7. Zhengyou Zhang: Microsoft Research’s Latest ACM Fellow 

    January 16, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies   Pardon Zhengyou Zhang if he retains a certain fondness for the year just past. In early December 2013, Zhang, a research manager and principal researcher for Microsoft Research, was named a recipient of the inaugural Helmholtz Prize, a test-of-time award…

  8. Blake’s Gibbs Lecture Focus: Machines That See, Powered by Probability 

    January 15, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Eighty years ago, Albert Einstein was invited to deliver the 11th installment of the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, established by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 1923 to give the public insight into the intricacies of mathematics and its applications.…

  9. Two from Microsoft Research Named 2014 IEEE Fellows 

    December 17, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   Even in this awesome, hyperbolic age, the words “extraordinary achievement” don’t get tossed around all that much. And when they come from the IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, they retain the distinction of…