Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the…
His ‘Mining Quality Phrases from Massive Text Corpora’ research was a Round Four winner.
Antonio Criminisi along with Peter Kontschieder, Madalina Fiterau, and Samuel Rota Bulo were awarded the Marr Prize at ICCV 2015 for their award-winning paper, Deep Neural Decision Forests. Their research showed that by using a technique called…
Sudipta Sengupta named IEEE Fellow for contributions to network design, routing and applications to Internet backbone, data centers, and peer-to-peer systems.
Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance. Microsoft’s new approach to…
Advances in cognitive computing—machines programmed to improve modeling on their own—allow more sophisticated forecasting software to provide predictions for the air quality index.
Sriram Rajamani has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >
Cynthia Dwork has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her significant contributions to the science of database privacy, cryptography, and distributed computing. Read more >
Mary Czerwinski has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to human-computer interaction and leadership in the CHI community. Read more >
Sriram Rajamani was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow for his contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >
