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…
Humans have an innate desire to know and understand. From a child learning to ride a bike to an adult gaining skills in an online course, we constantly absorb information from our environment through interaction. Motivated by this observation,…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”...
In the news | Asian Scientist
The corporate vice president at Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is confident that AI will transform every sector of industry, and even challenge our understanding of ourselves.
Awards | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Gary J. Sullivan received the 2017 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm, for their paper “Video Quality Evaluation Methodology and Verification Testing of…
In the news | The BCS
The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for Simonâs work to advance the development of computer science education in the UK.
In the news | Royal Society case study
Changing expectations is a Royal Society programme that aims to understand how best to steward research culture through a shifting research landscape. It investigates the evolving relationship between the research community and the wider research system. It draws on experiences…