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In the news | ACM SIGPLAN

The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn) 

January 1, 2016

For the 2009 paper, 'Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.'

In the news | Aminer

2016 AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in Data Mining 

January 1, 2016

The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List will name 2,000 of the world's top-cited research scholars from the fields of artificial intelligence over the next ten years (2020 - 2029).

In the news | ACM SIGPLAN

The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award 

January 1, 2016

Among Simon’s technical contributions to language design is leading work in monadic I/O, type classes, generalized abstract data types, composable transactional memory, generic programming via 'scrap your boilerplate', advances in type inference, and more.

In the news | The Royal Society

Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy 

January 1, 2016

Simon's main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC).

In the news | Yelp

Grand Prize in Yelp Dataset Challenge 

December 31, 2015

His 'Mining Quality Phrases from Massive Text Corpora' research was a Round Four winner.

Microsoft Research Blog

Exclusive: Experts and audience agree AI is an opportunity, not a threat 

December 23, 2015

By Christine Clifton-Thornton, Research News Swedish Nobel organizers whose annual prizes recognize the pinnacle of human achievement turned their attention this month to human and artificial intelligence. The Nobel Week Dialogue convened leading academics, technology leaders, Nobel laureates and other luminaries…

Microsoft Research Blog

Jeannette Wing promotes computational thinking at World Computer Congress 

December 16, 2015

By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia It’s incontrovertible that technology is changing the face of education. Today, students throughout the world conduct research online and complete their school assignments digitally. Many students have access to laptops…

Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft-led research team wins Marr prize for outstanding computer vision research 

December 16, 2015

By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research A team led by a Microsoft researcher has won the prestigious Marr prize in computer vision research for a paper that presents an alternative to what is currently the most popular method of…

Awards | ICCV

Antonio Criminisi awarded Marr Prize 

December 14, 2015

Antonio Criminisi along with Peter Kontschieder, Madalina Fiterau, and Samuel Rota Bulo were awarded the Marr Prize at ICCV 2015 for their award-winning paper, Deep Neural Decision Forests. Their research showed that by using a technique called random forests researchers could create a…

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