Project Hawaii XAPFest 2011 Awards Hawaiian Trip to Windows Phone App Contest Winner
Working as an intern at Microsoft has many benefits, but a vacation in Hawaii is not usually one of them. This year, summer interns had an opportunity to work on exciting new mobile technologies, while competing with their peers for…
SEIF Project Crystal Receives ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Each year, Microsoft Research awards competitive grants to computer science academics through the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF). In the first grant round, conducted in 2010, Professor David Notkin and his colleagues at the University of Washington were the recipients of…
Latin American Workshop Explores Research Challenges and Collaboration Opportunities
Fifty Latin American researchers and former Microsoft Research interns and Fellows gathered at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, in July to participate in the LATAM Workshop. The goals of this research workshop: share research challenges and results and seek…
Speech Recognition Leaps Forward
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research During Interspeech 2011, the 12th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association being held in Florence, Italy, from Aug. 28 to 31, researchers from Microsoft Research will present work that dramatically improves the potential…
Top Researchers Inspire Interns
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Each summer, Microsoft Research facilities from around the world welcome a fresh crop of interns. Microsoft Research considers the intern program a vital part of its interactions with the academic world, with some facilities…
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Best Paper Award in SSTD 2011
For the paper, 'FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees.'
U.K. Researcher Garners TR35 Accolade
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Pioneering research into programming biology has earned a Microsoft Research scientist a prestigious TR35 award, presented by Technology Review. Andrew Phillips, a 34-year-old scientist who leads the Biological Computation group at Microsoft…
Barcelona-Cambridge Collaboration Celebrates its First PhD Success
Collaboration can be a great catalyst for new ideas. Whether working with colleagues from down the hall or a team from another continent, we have found that working together strengthens our ideas. A prime example is the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre…
2011年8月19日，北京——今天，在“2011敦煌论坛：文化遗产与数字化国际学术研讨会”上，微软亚洲研究院院长洪小文博士向敦煌研究院捐赠了专门为敦煌莫高窟量身定制的“飞天号”十亿级像素数字相机系统。“飞天号”由硬件和软件组成，是目前世界上唯一的十亿级像素数字相机系统，可以捕捉物体的超高分辨率图像，突破性地解决了敦煌壁画和佛龛数字化拍摄过程中的众多难题，开启了微软亚洲研究院与敦煌研究院文化遗产数字...