June 30, 2022

While the US Supreme Court restricts the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb emissions in the United States, Microsoft just launched its Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) collective to "accelerate cutting-edge research and transformative innovation in climate science and technology."

June 30, 2022

Microsoft Corp. has launched a climate research effort in a bid to build a network of participants to tackle some key problems affecting the environment. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative will at first focus on carbon reduction and removal, carbon accounting and environmental resilience, the…

June 29, 2022

Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate math into language that computers understand.

June 29, 2022

Microsoft is launching a new research initiative aimed at fighting climate change, the company announced Wednesday. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) aims to harness the tech giant’s research and computing expertise as it collaborates with academic institutions.

June 28, 2022

Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft Research) along with coauthors Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research), and Nigel Davies (Lancaster University), received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2022 for their paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile…

June 27, 2022

The Web Science Trust (WST) awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award to Mumum De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz the authors of “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”. The award…

June 24, 2022

Some days, you step outside and you know that the air quality is lower or higher than the day before. But until the EcoPod, you haven’t been able to prove it. Now, you can monitor your air quality and get…