As our lives become increasingly conducted online, the growth rate of data recording our daily activities has exploded. These records, which range from the details of our online social engagements to the graphs gathered by major search engine companies representing…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer at Microsoft When Yong Rui first began doing computer vision research in 1995, the Internet was still in its infancy and the idea of using technology to automatically search for images seemed almost absurd. “That [notion] was…
Pegasus II mission update: as the payload was preparing to launch on Tuesday, an air pressure sensor critical in determining altitude, provided faulty readings that resulted in a delay of the launch. The team will address the issue and will…
Awards | IEEE Computer Society
Wolfram Schulte received the IEEE Computer Society 2016 Harlan D. Mills Award (opens in new tab) for research and research leadership contributions that have led to major theoretical and practical advances in software verification. Read more >
Yong Rui received the IEEE Computer Society's 2016 Technical Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for his pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval. Read more >
By Xin Ma, Regional University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research was held on November 27 in Beijing, China. Professors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore gathered at this first annual event…
By Jonathan Fay, Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research Founded in 2007, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) began as a “dream project” for Jim Gray, Curtis Wong, and myself. In July 2015, WWT was classified as an open source project. Now, in…
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to…
In the news | The Register
Microsoft researchers, in partnership with academia, have published a paper detailing how they have dramatically increased the speed of homomorphic encryption systems.