Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
| Meredith Ringel Morris
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce.…
Code in the Classroom with Dr. Peli de Halleux
Episode 12, February 15th, 2018 - If you’ve ever wondered if you could find the perfect combination of computer scientist… and Macgyver, look no further than Dr. Peli de Halleux, principal Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research. A key…
I Chose STEM – Event Recap
| Jessica Mastronardi
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and research community stakeholders joined Microsoft…
In the news | Franzis Kuskiefer Blog
The HACL* approach
HACL* (High-Assurance Cryptographic Library) is a formally verified cryptographic library in F*, developed by the Prosecco team at INRIA Paris in collaboration with Microsoft Research, as part of Project Everest. HACL* was inspired by discussions at the HACS workshop and…
In the news | Microsoft Azure
Microsoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science breakthroughs
Microsoft has provided 17 cloud credit awards to Principal Investigators who benefit from NSF supported programs, which already seeing some interesting breakthroughs across the human body, microbial diseases, and even everyday communication.
The women who inspire women to pursue careers in STEM
| Anne Loomis Thompson
Halfway through college, I had an identity crisis. Spring was in the air in Hanover, New Hampshire, and my classmates were gearing up for Dartmouth's famed Sophomore Summer term. Most of them would spend much of this term tubing down…
Improving AI Systems with Human Feedback and no Heartburn
| Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, and Susan Dumais
Humans play an indispensable role in many modern AI-enabled services – not just as consumers of the service, but as the actual intelligence behind the artificial intelligence. From news portals to e-commerce websites, it is people’s ratings, clicks, and other…
In the news | LinkedIn
You are what you write
There is a Chinese proverb that says “见文如见人,” which literally means “reading the document is the same as seeing the author.” If we are what we write, then who have we, as a society, become? I was sitting in a technical review…
Microsoft researchers unlock the black box of network embedding
| Kuansan Wang
At the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2018, my team will introduce research that, for the first time, provides a theoretical explanation of popular methods used to automatically map the structure and characteristics of networks, known as…