Awards | Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller
Best Paper: Honorable Mention, CHI 2018
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl, Mike Sinclair receive SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award
Victor Bahl, Eugene Shih, and Michael J. Sinclair received a SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award (2018) for their paper on reducing mobile device battery consumption entitled: “Wake on Wireless: An Event Driven Energy Saving Strategy for Battery Operated Devices,” published in ACM MobiCom…
Four Big Bets For Better AI Research: A Personal Journey
| Sumit Gulwani
It’s a big shift to change from being motivated by getting published in prestigious conferences and journals, to being motivated by solving real problems for real people. Halfway through my 18-year research career working on program synthesis–the task of automatically…
When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
Episode 17, March 28, 2018 - Dr. McDuff talks about why we need computers to understand us, outlines the pros and cons of designing emotionally sentient agents, explains the technology behind CardioLens, a pair of augmented reality glasses that can…
In August 2017, Proginn and Juejin, two very popular online communities and agencies for Chinese CS engineers jointly announced a survey report that had over 100,000 Chinese engineers participating. The report highlighted that only 7.38% of participating engineers in the…
2018 EMEA Scholarships to Advance Compelling Research in Healthcare, AI, Future of Work
The Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA awards scholarships to fund the most promising and groundbreaking computer science research by PhD students across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are extremely proud today to highlight some of the…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Brainwave makes Bing’s AI over 10 times faster
Microsoft announced today that its use of specialized hardware for AI computation allowed it to get more than 10 times faster performance for a machine learning model that powers functionality of its Bing search engine.
In the news | The Globe and Mail
Going Deep
El Asri, a research manager at Microsoft's Montreal research lab, and her colleagues are grappling with the challenge of designing computer systems that can interact with humans the way humans interact with one another.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs Accelerate Artificial Intelligence for Deep Learning in Microsoft’s Bing Intelligent Search