Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais and colleagues receive SIGIR Test of Time Award for 1988 paper
Susan Dumais and colleagues received the Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) for their 1988 paper, Information Retrieval Using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. The paper describes a method for…
Awards | Brandeis University
Leslie Lamport receives honorary degree from Brandeis University
Leslie Lamport received an honorary degree from Brandeis University, where he earned both his master’s (’63) and PhD (’72) in mathematics. Lamport’s pioneering work in principled distributed computing includes the development of protocols that allow computer systems to cooperate, avoid errors and…
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, named Sharad Agarwal, Meredith Ringel Morris and Thomas Zimmermann to the 2017 class of ACM Distinguished Members for their outstanding contributions to the fields of computing and information technology. Agarwal is a…
Project Vermont: Improving camera performance through curved image sensors
By Richard Stoakley, Microsoft Research It's hard to remember when our world wasn't full of cameras. They're in our phones and tablets, posted on street corners and in our buildings and cars. We rely on them not just to capture…
Toward AI that operates in the real world
By Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research It’s an exciting time to be a machine intelligence researcher. Recent successes in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), which span from achieving human-level parity in speech recognition to beating world champions in board…
Holograms: The future of near-eye display?
By Andrew Maimone, Researcher; Andreas Georgiou, Researcher; Joel Kollin, Principal Research Hardware Development Engineer Last week at the SCIEN Workshop on Augmented and Mixed Reality, a group of industry and academic researchers met to discuss the future of virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR).…
P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
By Shaz Qadeer, Principal Researcher The complexity of emerging software applications requires new approaches to understanding and then efficiently building, testing and debugging these systems. Today’s software uses cloud resources, is often embedded in devices in the physical world and…
Awards | Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Kori Inkpen honored with 2017 CHCCS Achievement Award
The 2017 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award was presented to Kori Inkpen at Graphics Interface 2017 for her many contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. Throughout her career, Inkpen’s work has focused on the design and evaluation of computer tools that…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s Project Emma is a wearable that helps with Parkinson’s tremors
Microsoft has created a watch that the company says can help people with Parkinson's disease write more clearly. The Emma Watch sends vibrations to the brain that help control hand tremors.