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ACM Distinguished Service Award 2019
For significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia,industry, and government agencies.
News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Microsoft researchers receive ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award for their paper Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, published in ACM Sensys 2008. Nericell pioneered the use…
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DNA as storage medium of the future
Die Universität von Washington arbeitet mit Microsoft daran, DNA als Speichermedium der Zukunft zu entwickeln. Rechenzentren könnten auf die Grösse von Spielwürfeln schrumpfen, Daten jahrhundertelang lesbar bleiben.
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Move over Apple Watch, MSI exhibit shows off a tattoo that controls your phone, plus other insane wearable technology
If you thought we had a few years before the world turns into a real-life “Black Mirror” episode, think again. Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry’s latest exhibit, “Wired to Wear,” makes it very clear…
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Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
First published on MSDN on Nov 07, 2018 | Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. These improvements included:…
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Microsoft Is Using DNA to Solve Our Impending Data Storage Crisis
The data stored in a warehouse-sized datacenter today would fit into ‘a space roughly the size of a few board game dice.’
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Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage
DNA data storage holds the promise of putting huge amounts of information into a test tube — but who wants to carry test tubes around a data center all day? Researchers from Microsoft and the…
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With a “hello,” Microsoft and UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology out of the research…
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Microsoft devices store digital info as DNA
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Washington have successfully automated the process to translate digital information into DNA and back to bits.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Becoming Relevant in Pre-Quantum World
Dr. Brian LaMacchia from Microsoft Research said that “large-scale quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC public-key cryptography will exist within the next 10 to 15 years. The work that Microsoft Research is doing…