Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student.
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical…
Celeste Biever/Nature published a feature and an editorial (“ChatGPT is a black box: how AI research can break it open”) about the various ways scientists and researchers are evaluating the capabilities of LLMs like GPT-4,…
A latent state can enable vastly better planning, exploration, and credit assignment by keeping task-relevant information while discarding distractions and irrelevant details. For example, in video games, there is a game-engine state which has all…
Plastic trash is everywhere in the environment. Bottles made from fossil fuels litter the side of the road, screw caps pepper the beaches, bags waft down the street. So the notion of a plastic made from…
AI is not just transforming the digital world, it is increasingly being leveraged to solve some of the most pressing global issues. One such organization spearheading this charge is Microsoft, through its AI for Good Research Lab.…
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around…
Peter Lee spoke to CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, about the promise of AI to reducing tasks that are burdening healthcare professionals so they can focus on their patients.
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand. Read about recent advances in protein design, including MSR’s research into protein structure generation via folding diffusion.
Daniel Berger’s paper, Enso: A Streaming Interface for NIC-Application Communication, was selected as a best paper by the OSDI’23 organizers for its quality and potential impact. Enso was also awarded for its open source artifacts.
