Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Ben Zorn was honored with the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2021 having served the programming language community for many years and in many capacities. He also has mentored many of his work colleagues and visiting…
Time is running out on efforts to stabilize our global climate system. Doing so will require transitioning our world to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. Failing to do so risks unprecedented social and…
Li Lyna Zhang, Ting Cao, and Yuqing Yang Mobisys 2021 Best Paper Award nn-Meter: Towards Accurate Latency Prediction of Deep-Learning Model Inference on Diverse Edge Devices.
We have also started collaborating with Microsoft Research teams NNI (Neural Network Intelligence) and FLAML (Fast and Lightweight AutoML) to update ML.NET’s AutoML implementation.
Jamie Shotton, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Toby Sharp, Mark Finocchio, Alex Kipman and Andrew Blake received the Longuet-Higgins prize for their paper, Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images. The annual Longuet-Higgins prize is…
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) sits in the nexus between the most remote places in the world and burgeoning animal conservation science. It provides the monitoring technology that conservation groups need to keep watch over wild…
“Hybrid work is here to stay. It is going to continue. But we want to make sure that it comes in a way that’s equitable and everyone gets to experience the benefits of it.” Dr.…
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too. Most everyone fears that they will be replaced by robots or AI someday. A field like mathematics, which is governed…
Katsu Ikeuchi’s contributions to the electronics, information and communication field have been outstanding, and as such the IEICE presented him with the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award 2021. In the field of “computer vision,” a…
Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics. Peter Scholze wants to rebuild much of modern mathematics, starting from one of its cornerstones.…
