ACM杰出会员谢幸：让你的每一项工作都经得起时间的考验
编者按：在刚刚过去的10月底，一年一度的 ACM 杰出会员评选结果正式揭晓，微软亚洲研究院首席研究员谢幸因在计算机科学领域的突出贡献成功入选，而在上周五开幕的 ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 国际会议上，谢幸与研究团队在十年前发表的论文“Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories”又获得了“十年影响力论文奖”。 又是一个快乐的周末...
ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality. D. Schneider(1), A. Otte(1), T. Gesslein(1), P. Gagel(1), B. Kuth(1), M. S. Damlakhi(1), O. Dietz(1), E. Ofek, M. Pahud, P. O. Kristensson(3), J. Muller(4) and J. Grubert(1) (1) Cuborg University, (2)…
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Microsoft’s participation in AfroTech demonstrates its commitment to include everyone
At Microsoft we talk a lot about being intentional and building a workforce that reflects the communities where we work around the world. That intention was on full display last week in Oakland as Microsoft once again sponsored and actively…
Hacking the runway with MakeCode with Dr. Thomas Ball and Dr. Teddy Seyed
Computer programming has often been perceived as the exclusive domain of computer scientists and software engineers. But that’s changing, thanks to the work of people like Dr. Thomas Ball, a Partner Researcher in the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, and…
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A conversation with the researcher who put a movie on a piece of glass with Project Silica
One of the highlights of Satya Nadella’s vision keynote at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 last week was Project Silica where he held out a drink coaster-sized piece of regular quartz glass and shared that the piece of glass had the…
Researchers in their mid-career should expand on their current capacities to grow beyond good research and, instead, become drivers of innovation. In this article, the author explores five traits that user researchers should carry with them on their journey.
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SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
For the paper, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones.
Awards | ACM
ACM SenSys Test of Time Award 2019
The Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field. Venkat Padmanabhan, and…
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Microsoft Warns Its Advanced Chatbot Might Say Offensive Things
Microsoft researchers have released a chatbot version of a cutting-edge text generator trained on tens of millions of Reddit posts—albeit with a disclaimer in place should things get offensive.