Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Luca Cardelli received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award for significant and lasting contributions to the field of programming languages. Read more >
On May 27, 2015, Suzhou, a historic, scenic city in southeast China, hosted this year’s finals of the Beauty of Programming (BoP) competition, a creative contest among talented young programmers. Sponsored by Microsoft in collaboration with IEEE, BoP encourages contestants…
The sun shone brightly in Redmond yesterday, matching the intensity of 600 experts—each anticipating the sharing and acquisition of computing research knowledge—gathered in the Microsoft Conference Center for day one of the 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. These days, it…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make wearable gadgets such as fitness trackers and smart watches go much longer between charges. The research project, called WearDrive, is the latest development…
I recently had the opportunity to attend two interesting conferences, NAACL (North America Association of Computational Linguistics) and CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). They are top conferences in the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, respectively,…
Walking into the Microsoft Conference Center this morning, I could feel the excitement in the air as 600 academics and researchers started meeting up for the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. High on the agenda of this, our…
In 2004, Microsoft Research and Microsoft’s Web Search team started a joint effort to improve the relevance of our web search results. There followed a sustained effort that, over the next several years, resulted in our shipping three generations of…
Quantum computing has the potential to utterly overturn what it means to compute. At Microsoft, we have been studying quantum computation since the late nineties with an eye towards a scalable universal quantum computer. Quantum computers compute in a massively…
By Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research We are pleased to announce the Microsoft HoloLens Academic Research request for proposals (RFP), which will enable the academic community to join us in advancing the creation of new holographic computing experiences.…