Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
ArrayTrack: A Fine-Grained Indoor Location System (USENIX NSDI, 2013) introduced a pioneering approach to RF-based indoor localization and wireless sensing by leveraging phase-array-based signal processing. Moving beyond traditional wireless signal strength measurements, it utilized multiple…
An agent can tackle certain tasks with you or for you, from acting as a virtual project manager to handling more complex assignments like reconciling financial statements to close the books. Microsoft 365 Copilot is…
Through our Accelerating Foundation Models Research program, we’ve made grants to hundreds of projects in AI safety and alignment research, AI-driven scientific discovery, and beneficial applications of AI. And we launched our Global Perspectives Responsible…
Microsoft Research senior optical scientist Ariel Gomez Diaz was selected for the 2025 Photonics100 list, which celebrates individuals driving innovation in photonics and optical technology worldwide. Ariel’s work explores revolutionary optical technologies with tangible applications…
Why can’t I vote online? And what would happen if I could? Over the past two months, I called up a bunch of voting and security experts to try to answer that question. And the…
In June, the journal Nature published a perspective suggesting that the harms of online misinformation have been misunderstood. The paper’s authors, representing four universities and Microsoft, conducted a review of the behavioral science literature and…
What’s next for AI, and what are the main technical hurdles to overcome? That was one of the questions we asked when working on our deep dive into Microsoft’s history and future in artificial intelligence,…
Since the early 1990s, the promise of AI has been a driving force at Microsoft Research, which has a track record of breakthroughs in speech recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and other research that continues…
Improving LLMs’ ability to retrieve in-prompt information can impact important applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and in-context learning (ICL). Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University researchers have introduced Differential Transformer (Diff Transformer), a new LLM architecture that amplifies…
David Baker received the Nobel Prize today for breakthrough work in protein design, on creating new proteins to serve as novel therapies and vaccines. Five years ago, we made the decision to go all-in with…
