April 5, 2017

A new Microsoft Research team, Project Sopris, is looking to redesign microcontrollers in the name of making low-cost IoT devices more secure.

April 5, 2017

The Project Sopris team has tested different approaches to device security from silicon to software and have found optimal device security must be rooted in hardware but kept up-to-date through evolving software.

April 5, 2017

Microsoft researchers have identified seven properties of highly secure devices, and describe their experiments towards designing microcontroller-based prototype devices adapted from the Mediatek MT7687 MIPS microcontroller.

March 31, 2017

The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell, an advanced, purely functional programming language used by…

March 31, 2017

Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.

March 30, 2017

A. J. Brush received the 2017 Alumni Achievement Award from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Brush is a human-computer interaction researcher with a love for building experimental platforms and prototypes that enable…

March 30, 2017

The HIV Vaccine Trials Network honored Jonathan Carlson with an inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award for his leading role in research that leveraged machine learning and the trials network’s data to show how HIV variants that are pre-adapted to an individual’s immune…