Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Vision Zero is a global movement transforming the way we use, interact and travel on our roads. It has a simple and clear goal: zero fatalities or serious injuries on roadways. Vision Zero aims for…
At any point in time on any day of the week, Microsoft’s cloud computing operations are under attack: The company detects a whopping 1.5 million attempts a day to compromise its systems. Microsoft isn’t just…
After months of collaboration with Microsoft and the University of Washington, the city of Bellevue premiered its crowd-sourced video analytics project Thursday morning in the hopes of making the streets safe for everybody.
What if we could use technology to predict where vehicle collisions involving people who walk or bike will occur, then take steps to prevent them? Would you want to help? Well, now you can.
The city of Bellevue is asking for the public’s help to make streets safer using new technology. Bellevue is working with Microsoft and the University of Washington on a cutting-edge effort to help prevent traffic…
Volunteers will “teach” the program to better identify people walking and biking. Despite signing onto Vision Zero, a campaign that aims to eliminate traffic-related deaths and serious injuries, Washington, D.C. and other large cities have…
The plan is to generate data about crashes and use it to improve roadways and prevent collisions between cars, trucks, bikes and pedestrians.
Susan Dumais and colleagues received the Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) for their 1988 paper, Information Retrieval Using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. The…
Leslie Lamport received an honorary degree from Brandeis University, where he earned both his master’s (’63) and PhD (’72) in mathematics. Lamport’s pioneering work in principled distributed computing includes the development of protocols that allow computer systems…
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, named Sharad Agarwal, Meredith Ringel Morris and Thomas Zimmermann to the 2017 class of ACM Distinguished Members for their outstanding contributions to the fields of computing and…
