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Contest finalists use Microsoft Azure to discover the beauty of programming
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia What does it take to make it to the “decisive round for the finest few” in the Beauty of Programming Contest 2016? Earlier this year, 60 young experts gathered at…
Sharing our vision at CVPR 2016
By Andrew Fitzgibbon, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge This year, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place at Caesar’s Palace from June 26–July 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CVPR is the premier annual computer…
Cultivating collaboration: a people first approach
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When we focus on people first, great projects and new technologies can’t be far behind. This perspective guides Microsoft Research’s activities in every region, and Korea is no exception. Our very…
Yong Rui wins IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer at Microsoft When Yong Rui first began doing computer vision research in 1995, the Internet was still in its infancy and the idea of using technology to automatically search for images seemed almost absurd. “That [notion] was…
Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research presents exciting innovations
By Xin Ma, Regional University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research was held on November 27 in Beijing, China. Professors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore gathered at this first annual event…
Bringing together history and data science with Microsoft Azure
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Andrea Nanetti is a historian and associate professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Some might think that, as a historian, he’d…
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Microsoft, IBM eye technology to forecast air pollution in China
Yu Zheng, a researcher at Microsoft, told China Daily that technology companies like Microsoft ‘can leverage their computing infrastructures, data management, analytics tools and knowledge in data science to help forecast air pollution.’
New thinking in computer education
By Bei Li, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research “The current development of computer science resembles the Renaissance in Italy of the 15th century,” said Tim Pan, director of Microsoft Research Asia, during a keynote speech on “Interdisciplinary Effect” at the…
Jeannette Wing promotes computational thinking at World Computer Congress
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…