Awards | Ubicomp 2017

John Krumm received a 10-Year Impact Award for his 2007 paper, Inference Attacks on Location Tracks, at the 2017 ACM Ubicomp Conference, a gathering of experts in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The paper exposed real-world privacy vulnerabilities associated with GPS-enabled devices and…

In the news | Mozilla Security Blog

Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very hard for programmers to write bug-free software. These bugs are…

In the news | Der Spiegel

As a first step, Microsoft wants to teach machines to read so that they understand the text, because most of the medical knowledge lies in texts: endless information on biological processes, therapeutic mechanisms and clinical studies is buried on billions…

PhD Fellowship 2018
Microsoft Research Blog

| Sandy Blyth

At Microsoft Research, we are on the lookout for exceptional students to apply for our two-year PhD fellowship program. Our fellowships are for students in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary studies intersecting with those domains…

Awards | Northwest Access Fund

The Northwest Access Fund honored the Seeing AI project team with the Best Practices Award for a Large Business. Seeing AI is a smartphone camera application for the blind and low-vision community that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to turn the…

In the news | Forbes

Awards | Microsoft News

Artificial intelligence eclipses cloud and mobile projects to win the day at Microsoft 2017 Hackathon. Watch For was the Grand Prize Winner at Microsoft’s One Week Hackathon 2017 among 18,000 participants. It also won the Garage Favorite Award at the Microsoft…

Awards | Microsoft Stories

What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence.

In the news | Wired

Kristin Lauter, head of cryptography research at Microsoft, leads research that encodes data in such a way that scientists don't lose the flexibility to perform medically useful genetic tests.