Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
At the 2020 edition of .NET Conf (opens in new tab), streamed online last week, Microsoft released the much-awaited .NET 5 (opens in new tab), along with new major .NET language versions (C# 9 (opens in new…
The Lasting Impact Award at Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2020 goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on ISS as a field. The 2020 Lasting…
Anuj Kalia received “Honorable Mention” for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for his Doctoral research thesis, Efficient Remote Procedure Calls for Datacenters. The award recognizes research in software systems and encourages the creativity…
On day two of HTN Now November, we welcomed the Microsoft Research InnerEye team to share how their AI for medical image analysis programme is benefiting clinicians at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT. Javier Alvarez-Valle, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft…
As Canadian health officials continue to double down on mitigating the spread of COVID-19, a multidisciplinary collaboration has begun between Providence Health Care (PHC), Microsoft Canada and computer vision researchers at the University of British…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India Council has named Dr. Ranjita Bhagwan as the recipient of the 2020 ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) Award (opens in new tab). A…
Andrew Baumann was awarded the 2020 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for his paper published with his colleagues, The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems, published in the SOSP ’09: Proceedings of…
Landon Cox received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for his paper TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones. This paper, co-authored with his students and colleagues, was published in the…
Our paper titled “Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy” won the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) conference.
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