Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
An interactive experience of artwork augmented with sound that allows one to ‘hear’ a large format drawing. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon, who is legally blind, debuted an installation with innovative research from Microsoft that…
The team behind the Oregon Project have created an art installation that allows people who are visually impaired (and those who aren’t) to ‘hear’ a painting.
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world’s most efficient hard drive.
Sound propagation in games is usually modeled with tricks and manual markup work. Gears of War 4 uses Project Triton to perform physical analysis of an entire video game level with its materials to calculate…
A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New…
The vision of the so-called internet of things — giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover — has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast.
When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing that is behind that instant…
Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
