During September 19-20, 2017, Microsoft Research Asia held a two-day PhD Forum event for past and future Fellows. This year’s event was packed with scientific and training elements, a fireside chat on career development, and plenty of networking opportunities.
When data mining large datasets, it’s usually difficult to achieve both efficiency and accuracy. If you search efficiently, accuracy is lost; if you require accuracy, it’s hard to be efficient. But through the development of an elegant and remarkably simple…
Equal parts passion and skill key to Microsoft Research high school intern projects
In a group — Microsoft Research — where most of the researchers have PhDs, what can high school students contribute? How can Microsoft contribute to high school students? Those questions were answered this summer, when Microsoft Research hosted several high-school-age…
Measuring human happiness and frustration using data science in the cloud
| Kenji Takeda
Emotions make us human. Researchers at The Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry and…
Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
| Jennifer Chayes
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep societal impact. My research has…
Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV
A technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays will receive an Emmy® Award on October 25. The 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, was announced…
Awards | Microsoft Research Blog
High Efficiency Video Coding awarded 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy
High Efficiency Video Coding, a technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays, received a 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Gary Sullivan, who works on…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
| Kenji Takeda
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every person on Earth to provide…
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Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains