Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Leslie Lamport, Distinguished Scientist, received the NEC C&C Foundation prize for outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems. The Foundation presents the C&C Prizes to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions…
Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from… oh crap. Reddit.
Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as…
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to preserve the iconic superhero movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a coaster. The idea, hopefully, is that this type of storage technology could help…
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, weâre now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and…
If you thought Microsoft was simply a productivity company, think again. CEO Satya Nadella kicked off this year’s Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference in Orlando, Fla. with a big sky vision for the company: “How do…
Microsoft Corp. has fresh momentum in the cloud wars. For starters, Microsoft was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract. For another, the company has just announced a…
The Jackson Laboratory has turned to Microsoft artificial intelligence technology to curate its fast-growing Jax Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB) in hopes of delivering up-to-the-minute clinical insights for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration is also helping…
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, Redmond announces Azure Arc, which lets SMBs not only run Azure on-premises in near-piecemeal fashion, but also lets them turn Azure’s beefy management tools onto on-premises servers and Kubernetes workloads running…
