In the news | Quanta Magazine
In the summer of 2015 a team of hackers attempted to take control of an unmanned military helicopter known as Little Bird. The helicopter, which is similar to the piloted version long-favored for U.S. special operations missions, was stationed at…
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
Although individual projects vary widely, Microsoft's overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches: one is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems, and the other is more data-driven.
In the news | Bloomberg
There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there's too much to read…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis have won the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award, which recognizes the impact of a paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 10 years earlier. The paper, “Simple unification-based type inference for…
In the news | The Economist
A new project aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the seemingly elusive challenge of burning…
Awards | The German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
Sebastian Nowozin received the 2016 German Pattern Recognition Award on September 13 at the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition for his development of machine learning models and algorithms suitable for solving structured computer vision problems.
In the news | ARS Electronica
Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and natural language processes. Nature has…
Awards | ACM
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper presents a wearable camera, SenseCam, that takes photos automatically, capturing…