Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist, received the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize for fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science. Dwork is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists of her generation. Her research has…
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Lebanon has announced the roll out of a Covid-19 Health bot solution for citizens. The Bot has been developed by trakMD in collaboration with Microsoft, the Epidemiological Surveillance…
COVID-19 brought a sudden—and global—need for people to stay home. This pressed many organizations to support remote work wherever possible, changing the routines and environment of millions of people in a matter of days. This…
Nationwide protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd have underscored the urgency for rethinking policing in the nation, and many of the changes will need to happen at the local level. Understanding…
Security and privacy are critically important when storing and processing sensitive information in the cloud, from payment transactions to financial records, personal health data, and more. With the general availability of DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs),…
Microsoft and University of Washington researchers have teamed up on a new app, CovidSafe, that promises to alert people automatically if they’ve been in close proximity to someone infected by COVID-19, seeking to strike a…
Acoustic monitoring has gained widespread interest as an ecological tool for wildlife population assessment, conservation, and biodiversity research. Many species emit regular vocalizations or other acoustic signals that are species-specific, which enables monitoring via sound…
COVID-19 is proving to be a disease of the immune system. This could, in theory, be controlled. The COVID-19 crash comes suddenly. In early March, the 37-year-old writer F. T. Kola began to feel mildly…
Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real chance of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA…
