News and Awards

Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research 

Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research: Mar González nos cuenta su trabajo con las HoloLens térmicas y la realidad virtual

Achievement Unlocked – Nearly 200 million images into a national land cover map in about 10 minutes 

When we started AI for Earth, we had one simple but huge ambition – to fundamentally transform the way we, as a society, monitor, model and manage Earth’s natural resources. That transformation will ultimately require…

Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming 

Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research’s agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats.

How to create accessible apps and immersive game experiences with new eye tracking APIs 

Last year in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we introduced Eye Control, an experience that allows customers to control Windows using only their eyes. We continue to design with individuals like Steve Gleason in…

Intel FPGAs: Accelerating the Future 

Project Brainwave is Microsoft’s principal architecture for serving real-time artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in Bing’s intelligent search, and now offered in Azure and at the edge.

Making Play Possible 

The hidden cost of annoying ads is fewer page views 

The study found that, indeed, participants gave up their task more quickly when they were shown annoying ads.

Butler Lampson inducted into The Royal Society 

Butler Lampson, a computing legend and Microsoft researcher who helped create the world’s first personal computer, tablets, printers and word processing programs, was invited to join The Royal Society – the UK’s national science academy, with a…

I do so like AML and HAM 

Farming’s most important crop may be the knowledge harvested by drones and the intelligent edge 

A new partnership between Microsoft and leading drone maker DJI builds on the work both companies are doing with data and agriculture that could make it easier and more affordable for farmers to quickly get…