Awards | Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society
Adam Fourney received the Bill Buxton Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. His dissertation: Web Search, Web Tutorials & Software Applications: Characterizing and Supporting the Coordinated Use of…
In the news | FastcoDesign
Project Florence could have incredible implications for the future of farming–and revolutionize the way we understand our environment.
In the news | Scientific American
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists far longer than the bodies for which it carries the genetic codes.
In the news | Fast Company
Project Florence could have incredible implications for the future of farming—and revolutionize the way we understand our environment.
Awards | Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
Hanna Wallach was honored with the Borg Early Career Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). For a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed…
By Jaime Puente, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microsoft Research Attendees at the 2016 Microsoft Research Latin America Faculty Summit. Eleven years ago, a few of my colleagues and I envisioned a gathering of the Latin American computer science research…
| Eugene Bobukh
Is Pluto a planet? And how is that question related to Data Science? For sure, physical properties of Pluto do not change if we call it a "planet", a "dwarf planet", a "candelabrum", or a "sea cow". Pluto stays the…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to better secure both the latest, cutting-edge consumer technologies and the more traditional tools that we rely on for everyday activities like accessing bank records and identifying ourselves…
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award. The award was presented Thursday, May 19, at the International Conference…