Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV
A technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays will receive an Emmy® Award on October 25. The 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, was announced…
Awards | Microsoft Research Blog
High Efficiency Video Coding awarded 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy
High Efficiency Video Coding, a technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays, received a 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Gary Sullivan, who works on…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
| Kenji Takeda
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every person on Earth to provide…
In the news | NY Times
Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains
Awards | Ubicomp 2017
John Krumm receives Ubicomp 10-Year Impact Award for 2007 paper
John Krumm received a 10-Year Impact Award for his 2007 paper, Inference Attacks on Location Tracks, at the 2017 ACM Ubicomp Conference (opens in new tab), a gathering of experts in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The paper exposed real-world privacy vulnerabilities associated…
In the news | Mozilla Security Blog
Verified cryptography for Firefox 57
Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very hard for programmers to write bug-free software. These bugs are…
In the news | Der Spiegel
How Microsoft and Google want to beat cancer
As a first step, Microsoft wants to teach machines to read so that they understand the text, because most of the medical knowledge lies in texts: endless information on biological processes, therapeutic mechanisms and clinical studies is buried on billions…
Nominations wanted: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program 2018
| Sandy Blyth
At Microsoft Research, we are on the lookout for exceptional students to apply for our two-year PhD fellowship program. Our fellowships are for students in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary studies intersecting with those domains…
Awards | Northwest Access Fund
Seeing AI project team honored with Best Practices Award for a Large Business
The Northwest Access Fund (opens in new tab) honored the Seeing AI project team with the Best Practices Award for a Large Business. Seeing AI is a smartphone camera application for the blind and low-vision community that harnesses the power of artificial…