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Awards | IEEE Computer Society
Nachi Nagappan to receive 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award
Nachi Nagappan has been selected to receive the 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award (opens in new tab) for his “outstanding contributions to empirical software engineering and data-driven software development.” The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated…
In the news | BusinessLine
Ola, Microsoft partner to collect air quality data in Delhi-NCR
The project is expected to collect millions of data points over one year to complete the spectrum of variation in Delhi’s air-pollution. Ride-hailing company Ola on Monday said it has entered with Microsoft Research to measure street level air quality…
In the news | SIGMOBILE
SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
For the paper, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones.
Awards | ACM
ACM SenSys Test of Time Award 2019
The Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field. Venkat Padmanabhan, and…
In the news | The Times of India
Microsoft automates driving license tests
Bengaluru: Microsoft is working with the Regional Transport Office (RTO) of Dehradun to automate driving license tests through its system named HAMS (Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety). HAMS was originally conceived as a system to monitor drivers and their driving, with…
In the news | The Indian Express
Microsoft provides Indian RTOs with AI software to take driving license tests
Microsoft has stated that its HAMS project enables the driver’s license testing to be an objective and transparent process. Microsoft has announced that its Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) AI project is being used at the Regional Transport Office, Dehradun,…
In the news | TechCrunch
Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoft’s AI project
An AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team, HAMS uses a smartphone’s front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.
In the news | ACM SIGOPS
Best Paper Award in ACM SOSP 2019
For the paper, ‘Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection â Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing.’
In the news | Gizmodo
Microsoft made a smartphone app that can administer driving tests without an instructor
The HAMS project (short for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety) uses a smartphone mounted to the windshield of a vehicle thatâs positioned so that its front-facing camera can see and monitor the driver, while its rear-facing camera can monitor the road…