Awards | AAAS
Philip Bernstein named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Philip Bernstein has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The association’s Section on Information, Computing and Communication selected Bernstein for his distinguished contributions to database systems, particularly data integration and transaction processing, and co-designing…
Interpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience
By Vanessa Ho, Microsoft News Center Staff. Follow her on Twitter. A well-known Scottish landscape painter, Keith Salmon creates ethereal, moody abstracts of skylines and mountains inspired by the rugged highlands in his country. Trained in fine arts and sculpture,…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator launching Neural Network based translations for all its speech languages
Microsoft Translator is now powering all speech translation through state-of-the-art neural networks. All speech translation apps that use this service, such as Skype Translator and the Microsoft Translator app for mobile devices, are now using neural network technology.
传承 • 创新 • 责任：微软亚洲研究院院友会成立
2016年11月14日，北京 —— 微软亚洲研究院院友会成立仪式在中关村微软大厦举行。曾经在微软亚洲研究院实习、工作过的近200位来自海内外企业界和学术界的院友代表和研究院同仁齐聚一堂，共同回顾了微软亚洲研究院建院18年来在与中国共同成长的过程中所取得的丰硕成果，以及微软亚洲研究院深耕科研、大胆创新、培育人才、开放融合的文化传承；院友以业界权威的前瞻视角展望和分享了对于科技创新与发展机遇...
Events in Seoul foster artificial intelligence discussion and collaboration
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia More than 1,700 students and faculty members attended the 18th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference 2016 last week in Seoul. It was the second time the conference, organized…
Awards | Universal Scientific Education and Research Network
Lucas Joppa awarded 2016 USERN Prize
The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network recognized Lucas Joppa with the 2016 USERN Prize in Formal Science at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran. The early career award recognizes scientists under the age of 40 for novel advancements or achievements in scientific education,…
Meredith Ringel Morris and A.J. Bernheim Brush of Microsoft along with their co-author Brian R. Meyers received the 2016 10-year Impact Award at the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) for the paper “Reading Revisited:…
Sriram Rajamani squashed bugs on road to leadership role in Microsoft’s India research lab
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research After a handful of years writing code for the telecommunications and design automation industries, computer bugs got the best of Sriram Rajamani. He witnessed firsthand how poorly constructed code caused programs to crash and…
Awards | ACM SIGOPS
Ant Rowstron receives the 2016 Mark Weiser Award
Ant Rowstron received the 2016 Mark Weiser Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). The annual award, notes SIGOPS, honors an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research with “contributions…