By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for Research in Water Resources on…
By Brian Hillger, Senior Director, C+E Business Planning, Microsoft Based on Microsoft’s extensive experience engaging and working with the academic community, we strongly believe that educational institutions of all types and sizes can benefit from cloud services, for research as…
By Jessica Watkins, Writer, Microsoft “The scientific endeavour is one of the crowning achievements of humankind, contributing to our culture and civilisation and to improving our quality of life”. The Royal Society Simon Peyton Jones is known for many things…
Awards | The Royal Society
Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his pioneering work on functional programming languages and as lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and for his pivotal role in the complete reform of computer science teaching in England…
Awards | ACM SIGMOBILE
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile devices using existing infrastructure and directly informed techniques that…
By George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us -- they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate…
By Judith Bishop (opens in new tab), Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research A thriving research and development ecosystem relies on connecting innovators with the tools for innovation. When we launched the Microsoft Open Source Challenge (opens in new tab)…
In the news | Womanthology
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane is a specialist in mathematical…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made computing giants such as Google,…