Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The American Mathematical Society honored Henry Cohn with the 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize for his article, “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” which was published in the February 2017 issue of the Notices of the AMS.…
Agriculture experts say the majority of farmers are now waking up to the value that technology and data can unlock.
Hereâs how researchers are using cutting-edge technology to make Indian roads safer and smarter.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence simulator has been expanded to include autonomous car research. The company has announced that its AirSim system will be used for testing the safety of vehicle artificial intelligence systems.
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
The Beijing Municipal Government presented a 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award to Hsiao-Wuen Hon, corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon was chosen for extraordinary…
A fresh wave of artificial intelligence rolling through Microsoft’s language translation technologies is bringing more accurate speech recognition to more of the world’s languages and higher quality machine-powered translations to all 60 languages supported by…
Approximately 10 million people around the world are living with Parkinson’s Disease, and Microsoft’s Emma Watch can help alleviate one of the disease’s most troubling symptoms.
HAMS, which stands for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety, is a virtual harness for vehicles that focusses on two factors that are critical to road safetyâthe state of the driver, and his or her driving relative…
Susan Dumais received the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2017 inaugural Test of Time Award for being the first author of the paper Inductive Learning Algorithms and Representations for Text Categorization, along with John Platt, David Heckerman, and…
