January 9, 2017

Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm (opens in new tab) last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”...

January 3, 2017

The corporate vice president at Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is confident that AI will transform every sector of industry, and even challenge our understanding of ourselves.

January 1, 2017

Gary J. Sullivan received the 2017 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm, for their paper “Video Quality Evaluation Methodology and Verification Testing of…

January 1, 2017

The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for Simon’s work to advance the development of computer science education in the UK.

January 1, 2017

Changing expectations is a Royal Society programme that aims to understand how best to steward research culture through a shifting research landscape. It investigates the evolving relationship between the research community and the wider research system. It draws on experiences…

January 1, 2017

For the paper, 'Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation, ICSE-29, 2007.'

December 31, 2016

Jaime Teevan received the 2016 Karen Spärck Jones award (opens in new tab) from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) for “technically strong and exceptionally creative contributions to the intersection of information retrieval, user experience and…

December 30, 2016

Microsoft Research has developed a new technology that uses a smartphone to detect and warn of factors that could increase the risk of accidents, such as speeding, drunk driving, or distractions.