By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the seemingly elusive challenge of burning…
Awards | The German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
Sebastian Nowozin received the 2016 German Pattern Recognition Award (opens in new tab) on September 13 at the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (opens in new tab) for his development of machine learning models and algorithms suitable for solving structured computer vision problems.
In the news | ARS Electronica
Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and natural language processes. Nature has…
Awards | ACM
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper presents a wearable camera, SenseCam, that…
By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Microsoft Research recently concluded its eighth annual summer school in Kazan, Russia, challenging students to conceptualize and build new applications from the sensors and devices emerging from the Internet of Things (IoT). “Our summer schools…
In the news | Nature
Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research hosted its third annual Data Science Summer School in New York City as a diverse group of undergraduate students deployed some of the latest data crunching techniques on millions of rows of…
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or receive information without looking at…
In the news | Castleton
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system. Director of the Polling Institute Dr. Rich Clark and Associate…