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Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the Tech, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott…
Awards | Association for Computing Machinery
Four Microsoft employees named 2022 ACM Fellow for their outstanding contributions that propel technology today
Ranveer Chandra, Marc Pollefeys, Gary Sullivan and Jaime Teevan, were named as one of the 57 ACM Fellows for 2022. Ranveer for contributions to software-defined wireless networking and applications to agriculture and rural broadband; Marc for contributions to geometric computer…
Awards | IETF News
Siva Karkala awarded 2023 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Siva Kakarla has been awarded one of six IETF Applied Networking Research Prizes for 2023, for his work on “SCALE: Automatically Finding RFC Compliance Bugs in DNS Nameservers”. Kakarla and his colleagues, Ryan Beckett, George Varghese and Todd Millstein, introduce…
In the news | Ivan Tashev named IEEE SPS Distinguished Industry Speaker for 2023
Ivan Tashev named IEEE SPS Distinguished Industry Speaker for 2023
Dr. Ivan Tashev was selected to be IEEE SPS Distinguished Industry Speaker for 2023. More information and the list of available talks: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/professional-development/distinguished-industry-speakers.
In the news | Época Negócios | One Planet
Microsoft accelerates data and AI applications to digitize agriculture
Microsoft’s leading researcher in the application of technologies in the field, Ranveer Chandra, tells how the company works to help create the future of agriculture.
In the news | Muckrock
Project Eclipse helps city of Chicago monitor air quality
Chicago’s air quality is among the worst in the U.S., and there are several local hotspots for particulate matter 2.5 — the tiny particles that come from diesel trucks and industry and enter people’s lungs and blood, causing significant health…
Awards | ACM SOCC'22 Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, ACM SoCC 2022
Supriyo Ghosh, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, and Suman Nath won the Best Paper award at ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2022 for their paper How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-Scale Cloud Service
Awards | UnB Notícias
Rico Malvar Receives Doctor Honoris Causa honorary degree
Rico Malvar received the honorary degree “Doctor Honoris Causa” from his alma mater University of Brasília, Brazil.
In the news | National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce appoints Ranveer Chandra to the new Internet of Things Advisory Board
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts, including Dr. Ranveer Chandra, for the new Internet of Things Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the Internet of Things Federal Working Group. The board represents a broad range of disciplines from…