Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem of FHIR® for developers with a new tool to securely ingest, normalize, and persist Protected Health Information (PHI) from IoMT devices in the cloud. Continuing our commitment to remove the…
ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality. D. Schneider(1), A. Otte(1), T. Gesslein(1), P. Gagel(1), B. Kuth(1), M. S. Damlakhi(1), O. Dietz(1), E. Ofek, M. Pahud, P. O. Kristensson(3), J. Muller(4) and J.…
At Microsoft we talk a lot about being intentional and building a workforce that reflects the communities where we work around the world. That intention was on full display last week in Oakland as Microsoft…
One of the highlights of Satya Nadella’s vision keynote at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 last week was Project Silica where he held out a drink coaster-sized piece of regular quartz glass and shared that the…
For the paper, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones.
The Test of Time Award was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field. Venkat Padmanabhan,…
Microsoft researchers have released a chatbot version of a cutting-edge text generator trained on tens of millions of Reddit posts—albeit with a disclaimer in place should things get offensive.
A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants’ emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.
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.
