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Microsoft releases encryption tech for bioinformatics
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
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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Microsoft boffins build better crypto for secure medical data crunching
As genome research – and the genomes themselves – get passed around the scientific community, the world’s woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published…
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Microsoft Advances Privacy-Enabling ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ For Analyzing Biomedical Data
Microsoft released a ‘manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,’ which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
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Microsoft Launch SEAL
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have…
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Microsoft helps out healthcare sector with new data encryption algorithm
Previous reports have pointed the finger at the healthcare sector as being woefully unprepared for the modern age of Internet-enabled devices that are always online and present a constant danger to the patient, hospital, and…
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Andy Wilson receives ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction) with the largest influence…
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Eric Horvitz receives ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award
Eric Horvitz was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Sustained Accomplishment Award for his long-standing contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and demonstrated vision in shaping the field,…
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Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández receive HCOMP 2015 Best Paper Award
Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández along with Elena Agapie received the Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2015) Best Paper Award for work on Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds…
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Difficile Est Primum Esse: How A Triple Whammy Undermined The Triple Aim
By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable…
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Microsoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, testing Minority Report-style predictive intelligence
Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.