News and Awards

Microsoft’s Songsmith makes music using PC 

Songsmith joins together the two loves of Dan Morris at Microsoft Research: music and computer science.

Best Paper, UIST 2009 

ACM SIGIR Salton Award (lifetime achievement), 2009 

For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.

Gary J. Sullivan Receives the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Electrical Engineering 

In 2009, Gary J. Sullivan received the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Electrical Engineering of the University of Louisville J. B. Speed School of Engineering (his alma mater institution where he had received his…

Gary J. Sullivan named a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 

Gary J. Sullivan was named a Fellow of the SPIE in 2009 “For specific achievements in video and image compression technologies.”

Elected ACM Fellow, 2008 

For contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.

SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008 

Buxton’s influence has been enormous. His contributions to the field of human-computer interaction start with music: coupling sound, music, and computers through tools, instruments, and even score editors.

New Area in Microsoft Research: Looking for a RiSE in Developer Productivity 

In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area, Research in…

Gary J. Sullivan Receives IMTC Leadership Award 

Award citation: The Leadership Award honored Dr. Gary Sullivan of Microsoft for his contributions to video coding and its standardization. The results of Sullivan’s research and his contributions are integral parts of today’s modern video…

Microsoft Research Releases Testing Tool for Multithreaded Apps 

Microsoft Research has released CHESS, an automated tool for finding errors — data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations — in multithreaded software by systematically exploring thread schedules. Once CHESS locates an error, it…