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Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries
The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.
News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Kristin Lauter elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Kristin Lauter was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community.”
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Li Deng receives IEEE Technical Achievement Award
Li Deng received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition. Read more >
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Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, and Gavin Jancke receive SIGIR Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award for research that had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea…
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As pollution in Beijing reaches extreme levels, here’s what Microsoft Research is doing to help
Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
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Microsoft has made a computer that can recognise a dog in a bike basket
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
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Microsoft trains machine to answer, ‘What’s that animal in your basket?’
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
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Why people in China love Microsoft’s Xiaoice virtual companion, and what it says about artificial intelligence
Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we’re familiar with in the U.S.: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Facebook’s M, Google Now, and Microsoft’s own Cortana.
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Nachi Nagappan selected as ACM Distinguished Scientist
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
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Ratul Mahajan selected as ACM Distinguished Scientist
Ratul Mahajan selected as 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.