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.
Pakistan Flood Impacts on Agriculture & Food Security
A combination of heavy monsoon rains since late June, cloudbursts, and recent water releases from overflowing dams has resulted in record flooding across eastern Pakistan, with some areas recording the worst flooding in over four…
Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025
Watch workshop on the Economics of Transformative AI, held on September 18-19 at Stanford University. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19618 and Microsoft.
How AI helps conservationists better understand and protect giraffes
Scientists have deployed artificial intelligence models to identify and re-identify endangered giraffes in Tanzania. The Wild Nature Institute partnered with Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab to launch Project GIRAFFE which uses open-source AI tools to…
Tian Xie named to MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35
Tian led the development of MatterGen, our generative AI model for materials discovery.
E. Glen Weyl debate Curtis Yarvin
Glen Weyl debate prominent anti-democratic technologist and philosopher Curtis Yarvin on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator.
Scene it to believe it: Populate 3D worlds quickly with NVIDIA AI blueprints
NVIDIA released the AI Blueprint for 3D object generation — a workflow that lets 3D artists create up to 20 3D objects to prototype a scene from a simple text prompt. Microsoft Research Asia’s TRELLIS…
Microsoft’s analog optical computer cracks two practical problems and shows AI promise
A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems. From the beginning, they…