In the 1999 American film Bicentennial Man, the late Robin Williams played a robot who strives to achieve the physical, social and legal status of a human being. The character’s growing language capabilities—his capacity to communicate fluently with his human…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
Quantum computers are still a distant prospect, but Microsoft researchers say we should strengthen online encryption against them now.
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Research Researchers have for years sought to understand the way opinions are formed and disseminated throughout social settings. Is there such a thing as the wisdom of the crowd? New research presented at this…
While we know that climate change will likely affect every aspect of the food system—from our ability to grow food, to the reliability of food transportation and food safety, to the dynamics of international trade in agricultural goods—we don’t yet…
A novel method of structuring the largest and most complex datasets—from social networks to global financial markets—has won a Best Paper award at the world’s leading academic conference on machine learning. In the paper, A Nearly-Linear Time Framework for Graph-Structured…
Posted by Jane Ma Microsoft researchers today announced that their high-performance software radio project is now open sourced through GitHub. The goal for Microsoft Research Software Radio (Sora) is to develop the most advanced software radio possible, capable of implementing…
Awards | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Jennifer Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Award (opens in new tab), the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (opens in new tab) for her leadership in the research community, as well as seminal…
The first week of July didn’t just see the arrival of extraordinarily high temperatures across Europe—it also brought extraordinarily high energy to Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, as 81 top PhD students gathered for the tenth annual Microsoft Research Cambridge PhD…
The 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is over, but I am still recovering my voice from all the great hallway conversations! The summit reminded my fellow Microsoft researchers, our myriad collaborators in academia, and me of what we have already…