Microsoft researchers enable secure data exchange in the cloud
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research In the future, machine learning algorithms may examine our genomes to determine our susceptibility to maladies such as heart disease and cancer. Between now and then, computer scientists need to train the algorithms on…
Microsoft NLP researchers converge at ACL 2016, edging ever closer to human-like conversational experiences
By Bill Dolan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research This year, the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will be held in Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016, at Humboldt University. ACL is the premier conference on natural language processing…
In the news | Changing Academic Life
Mary Czerwinski on managing people, managing stress, and the work to do good work
Mary shares some great experiences about her role as a manager and how she plays this out practically in enabling and protecting people, and establishing a culture in a group. She also talks about some of the key insights…
Our open source commitment: The proof is in the projects
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager & Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Openness allows innovation to evolve in unforeseen, novel and exciting ways, and sometimes even provides solutions that no one ever imagined were possible. Getting…
Researchers team up with Chinese botanists on machine learning, flower-recognition project
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Has this ever happened to you? You’re out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you’re stumped — you have no idea what…
The next 25 years of research: Disruption, invention and an element of surprise
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Over the next 25 years, research scientists will use technology to better humanity, to make more sense of the world and to use our time more efficiently. We’ll disrupt some industries and invent others.…
Awards | Computer-Aided Verification (CAV)
Samin Ishtiaq receives the 2016 CAV Award
Samin Ishtiaq will be receiving the 2016 CAV Award for the development of Separation Logic and for demonstrating its applicability in the automated verification of programs that mutate data structures. He is winning this award alongside Josh Berdine, a former…
Calling all Internet of Things researchers…
By Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect and Technical Manager and Arjmand Samuel, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research We are in the midst of an invisible revolution, with the promise of ubiquitous and pervasive computing not a dream but a newly emerging reality. The…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Asia Vision Series: Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Even before Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon first laid hands on a computer in college in 1981, he already imagined a future where systems could answer any question posed by humans.