Awards | Universal Scientific Education and Research Network
The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (opens in new tab) recognized Lucas Joppa with the 2016 USERN Prize (opens in new tab) in Formal Science at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran. The early career award recognizes scientists under the age of 40…
Meredith Ringel Morris and A.J. Bernheim Brush of Microsoft along with their co-author Brian R. Meyers received the 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) at the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS)…
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research After a handful of years writing code for the telecommunications and design automation industries, computer bugs got the best of Sriram Rajamani. He witnessed firsthand how poorly constructed code caused programs to crash and…
Awards | ACM SIGOPS
Ant Rowstron received the 2016 Mark Weiser Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). The annual award, notes SIGOPS, honors an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating…
In the news | Engadget
For HoloLens, a mixed reality headset that places holograms in your immediate environment, Dr. Ivan Tashev's team worked on a sound system that creates the illusion of 3D audio to bring virtual objects to life.
In the news | The AI Blog
On Tuesday, a team of scientists from Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s research lab in Beijing, China, announced the public release of technology designed to help computers conceptualize in a humanlike fashion. The Microsoft Concept Graph, as it is known, is…
In the news | Microsoft Blog
An interactive experience of artwork augmented with sound that allows one to 'hear' a large format drawing. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon, who is legally blind, debuted an installation with innovative research from Microsoft that enriches his art even more,…
In the news | Hamptons Art Hub
The team behind the Oregon Project have created an art installation that allows people who are visually impaired (and those who aren't) to 'hear' a painting.
In the news | The Wall Street Journal
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world's most efficient hard drive.