By Noboru Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The potential for virtual reality (VR) to upend industrial design, medicine, and other specialized fields has now vaulted the emerging field into the ranks of what the National Academy of…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Just a decade ago, the idea of using technology to do things like automatically translate conversations, identify objects in pictures — or even write a sentence describing those pictures — seemed like interesting research projects, but…
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are designed to help promising young…
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has supported groundbreaking PhD projects. This year we have 17 projects that span six countries, and include research…
By Thomas Ball, Research Manager, Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group, Microsoft Research The industrial research cycle Here is what I have told new hires of Microsoft Research (MSR) since I became a manager some 14 years ago: MSR gives…
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Data scientist, Anthony Tockar, used publicly available location data to show how celebrities can be tracked throughout New York City, while working on his Master’s Degree at Northwestern University. By cross-referencing…
Awards | ACM SIGCHI
Indrani Medhi Thies received the 2017 Social Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, which recognizes individuals who apply human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs. Thies is a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets group…
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science, Microsoft Research The National Science Foundation has launched a new solicitation in 2017 for the advancement of data science research and applications. The solicitation, titled Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
This new collaboration builds on previous efforts between Microsoft and NSF, and the Azure platform has added significant functionality and resources in recent years, including massive investments in open source and advanced data and intelligence services offered under its Cortana…