| Eugene Bobukh
Is Pluto a planet? And how is that question related to Data Science? For sure, physical properties of Pluto do not change if we call it a "planet", a "dwarf planet", a "candelabrum", or a "sea cow". Pluto stays the…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award.
Awards | National Academy of Sciences
Yuval Peres elected as Foreign Associate and Robert Schapire elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Read more >
Aaron Sidford awarded ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention for his dissertation, “Iterative Methods, Combinatorial Optimization, and Linear Programming Beyond the Universal Barrier,” which provides the first theoretical improvements in decades for multiple classic problems ranging from linear programming to…
Awards | The Royal Society
Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his pioneering work on functional programming languages and as lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and for his pivotal role in the complete reform of computer science teaching in England…
Awards | ACM SIGMOBILE
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile devices using existing infrastructure and directly informed techniques that…
In the news | Womanthology
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane is a specialist in mathematical…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made computing giants such as Google,…
In the news | Wired
IT'S ALMOST A given that you'll ride in an autonomous car at some point in your life, and when you do, the AI controlling it just might have honed its skills playing Minecraft.