Awards | American Philosophical Society
Cynthia Dwork was elected to join the American Philosophical Society (opens in new tab), the first learned society of the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin, which promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research,…
By Andrew Fitzgibbon, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge This year, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place at Caesar's Palace from June 26–July 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CVPR is the premier annual computer…
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science Outreach, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research is proud to support the US-wide National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program by awarding $3M in Microsoft Azure cloud computing credits. NSF supports four regional…
By Isabelle Guyon, Professor, University Paris-Saclay, and President, ChaLearn If you are attending this year’s ICML conference in New York City, June 19–24, be sure to drop by the AutoML workshop and congratulate Team AAD Freiburg, the winners of the…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones received the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for his leading role over the past 30 years in the design, implementation and evolution of Haskell (opens in new tab) and the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) (opens in…
By Athima Chansanchai, Microsoft News Center Staff Machine learning covers a lot of ground. At Microsoft, it’s being incorporated to detect lies, recognize human responses and forecast finances; as well as improve search, natural language processing, advertising, security and gaming.…
By Jeannette M. Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research “Self-driving cars. Robots at work, at home, at play. Drones for package delivery and pathogen surveillance. Energy-efficient, earthquake-proof buildings. Jet engines monitored and controlled by networks of sensors and actuators. Embedded…
By Vani Mandava, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Research People often rank public speaking as the number one fear that they face. New cloud-based technology from researchers at the University of Rochester lets speakers polish and practice at home in front of…
By Kristin Tolle, Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning and Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Research Data science can be a superpower. While we can’t solve all the ills of the world with machine learning, applying data science to just about any…