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News & awards

Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science. You can also view the awards archive for recognition before 2016.

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Abi Sellen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

by Royal Society

Prof. Sellen is one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her distinguished career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world’s leading technology companies, and her seminal contributions laid foundations for technologies used today by billions of people. She is world renowned for her pioneering work on video conferencing and teleworking, a field that has recently gained pivotal significance. Sellen is highly influential in the ethics of AI, and is a strong champion for multi-disciplinary research that ensures technology is human-centric.

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Episode 13: Web and the New Future of Work with Jaime Teevan 

by Untangling the Web Podcast

In this episode, (26 min. long) we talk with Jaime Teevan, chief scientist for Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices, where she’s charged with creating the future of productivity. She also developed the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing and introduced microproductivity into Microsoft Office.

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Seattle Now: A chance to change the office 

by KUOW

If you’re one of the many white-collar workers who left the office behind a year ago, you’re probably wondering just what’s in store when you go back. We get some insight on lessons learned from a year of remote work from Microsoft chief scientist Jaime Teevan.

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The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready? 

by Microsoft Worklab

Exclusive research and expert insights into a year of work like no other reveal urgent trends leaders should consider as hybrid work unfolds. We’re on the brink of a disruption as great as last year’s sudden shift to remote work: the move to hybrid work — a blended model where some employees return to the workplace and others continue to work from home. We’re experiencing this at Microsoft, and today we shared how we’re evolving our own hybrid work strategy for our 160,000+ employees around the world.

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What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work 

by Harvard Business Review

More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places to connect around innovative ideas and fewer opportunities to build social capital. Further, this trend is making employees feel lonely and isolated. To help address this issue, leaders should focus on being proactive about connecting employees across the organization, make space for connections outside official meetings, encourage and reward social support, and improve the structure of meetings.

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‘Steps to the toilet and coffee machine’: Are we working from home, or living at work? 

by The Seattle Times

With the pandemic maybe now ebbing, the talk of the town for those of us who were lucky enough not to be on the front lines is about going back to work. Or not. “Most remote employees don’t want to return to the workplace,” trumpeted a recent poll. It found that a scant 5% of workers, forced home by the coronavirus a year ago, now wish to go back to the office full time even if the virus is vanquished.

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Building trust at the origin 

by Microsoft Innovation Stories

Despite all the positives of synthetic media–create expression, educational applications, assistive technologies, entertainment–there’s a downside. It’s increasingly hard to detect, which leaves the door open for media to be altered after publication and spread as disinformation. Project Origin aims to create a measure of accountability through provenance: By certifying the source of the content like a watermark, we can safeguard against manipulation. Explore more…

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Boosted by Microsoft’s tech, Adaptive Biotechnologies’ new diagnostic test for COVID-19 gets FDA nod 

by Fierce Healthcare

Adaptive Biotechnologies launched a new diagnostic test for COVID-19 that uses machine learning technology from Microsoft to detect prior coronavirus infections. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the biotech company’s T-cell-based test, called T-Detect COVID, which is the first screening to detect past COVID-19 infections using an individual’s T-cell profile.

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The race to teach sign language to computers 

by The Economist

Microsoft’s researchers are using crowdsourcing to improve the amount and quality of data available. Danielle Bragg and her colleagues at the firm’s campus in Massachusetts are developing a smartphone version of “Battleship”, a game in which each player tries to sink their opponent’s ships by indicating locations on a grid…