Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Chris Bishop, a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society was founded in the 1660s to recognize, promote and…
Eric Horvitz was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics for making significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. The field of medical informatics harnesses data gathered throughout health and healthcare…
The result of a collaboration between the artist, Keith Salmon, and Microsoftâs experimental technology centre, The Oregon Project is a new stage in creating truly accessible art.
Microsoft Corp. is buying into Canada’s artificial intelligence research community with a deal to purchase Maluuba, a deep-learning and AI-technology startup based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal.
Xbox researcher Jessie Thomas participates in a panel discussion at the Univeristy of Notre Dame on unconscious assumptions that influence judgment and perception of others, and how to deal with them in an assertive, effective,…
A new Microsoft Research team, Project Sopris, is looking to redesign microcontrollers in the name of making low-cost IoT devices more secure.
The Project Sopris team has tested different approaches to device security from silicon to software and have found optimal device security must be rooted in hardware but kept up-to-date through evolving software.
Microsoft researchers have identified seven properties of highly secure devices, and describe their experiments towards designing microcontroller-based prototype devices adapted from the Mediatek MT7687 MIPS microcontroller.
Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell, an advanced, purely…
