Awards | UK Academy of Engineering
Don Syme named one of three winners of the prestigious UK Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2015 (opens in new tab) for an outstanding personal contribution to engineering by an early to mid-career engineer resulting in market exploitation. Read…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Many programmers recognize Don Syme's name, but even more are influenced daily by his research and development. After all, Syme, a principal researcher in Microsoft's Cambridge, U.K., lab, has helped to develop and influence features…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog
Welcome to the fifth episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series. In this edition, Desney Tan, Microsoft principal researcher, and Amish Patel, director of experiences and design for the Personal Devices Group at Microsoft, talk about wearable technology (such…
Students dream of attending major conferences, where they can present their work and interact with top researchers. For many, however, this dream remains just that, as funds for student attendance are in short supply. Microsoft Research receives many requests to…
The published research generated by the global research community constitutes a diary of humankind’s scientific achievements. As this output grows year after year, it creates new opportunities for further inquiry—and new challenges in dealing with the volume and complexity of…
Standing atop the tallest educational edifice in the world—the 240-meter (787-foot) tower of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)—really makes you think about the impact of education and research. This is home to some of the brightest minds in the world,…
A special report in the April 19, 2014, issue of The Economist predicted that 70 percent of China’s population—some 1 billion people—will live in cities by 2030. While China’s urban growth offers a higher standard of living to many citizens,…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Microsoft researcher Vasilis Syrgkanis and two colleagues this week unveiled a new approach to understanding and optimizing online bidding and auctions, with implications far beyond the online advertising marketplace in which their study was based.…
Posted by Allison Linn When Jeannette Wing wrote what would prove to be a seminal paper on the topic of computational thinking, many of her colleagues were in the doldrums. It was the mid-2000s, the dot-com boom had recently busted…