The first week of July didn’t just see the arrival of extraordinarily high temperatures across Europe—it also brought extraordinarily high energy to Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, as 81 top PhD students gathered for the tenth annual Microsoft Research Cambridge PhD…
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…
In the news | PNAS
Homomorphic encryption allows people to use data in computations even while that data are still encrypted.
A study of new algorithms that improve “online boosting” has won a Best Paper award at the world’s leading academic conference on machine learning. In the paper, Optimal and Adaptive Algorithms for Online Boosting, by Alina Beygelzimer, Satyen Kale, and Haipeng…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Luca Cardelli received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for significant and lasting contributions to the field of programming languages. Read more > (opens in new tab)
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…
The sun shone brightly in Redmond yesterday, matching the intensity of 600 experts—each anticipating the sharing and acquisition of computing research knowledge—gathered in the Microsoft Conference Center for day one of the 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. These days, it…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make wearable gadgets such as fitness trackers and smart watches go much longer between charges. The research project, called WearDrive, is the latest development…
I recently had the opportunity to attend two interesting conferences, NAACL (North America Association of Computational Linguistics) and CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). They are top conferences in the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, respectively,…