Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The importance of diversity and inclusion has been widely recognized by now and efforts toward this goal are commonplace in almost all settings. Diversity and inclusion, however, remains challenging, and even well-intentioned efforts do not…
A common theme that runs through her work is the importance of understanding and improving information systems from an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective. She is a co-inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis, a well-known word embedding…
Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Researcher Emeritus, was awarded the Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics 2020 for pioneering the way for women in the mathematical sciences to have leading technical roles in…
Microsoft and other companies joined forces to help Rolls-Royce create new AI technology that will allow people with motor neurone disease (MND) to have a conversation in their own voice, even after they have lost…
Breaking the annotation logjam in wildlife surveys. Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting — but urgent — task of surveying wildlife populations and making…
FHL winners were announced. 10 winners from 1337 projects were declared, with Voice FHL team winning an award at E+D level. The hack comprised of people from Voice, Augmentation Loop, WAC, Calc and MSR. The…
Our research group is working on the next-generation of AI architectures to realize the power of compositional symbolic computing in continuous, end-to-end deep neural networks.
Lidong Zhou, Distinguished Scientist, has been named a 2019 ACM Fellow for his contributions to trustworthy distributed computing and to systems research and education in China. The accomplishments of the 2019 ACM Fellows underpin the technologies that…
Lin Xiao’s paper Dual Averaging Method for Regularized Stochastic Learning and Online Optimization, won the Test of Time Award paper at NeurIPS 2019. His paper was selected for having made an important contribution, lasting impact, and…
