November 15, 2016

Microsoft Translator is now powering all speech translation through state-of-the-art neural networks. All speech translation apps that use this service, such as Skype Translator and the Microsoft Translator app for mobile devices, are now using neural network technology.

November 10, 2016

The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network recognized Lucas Joppa with the 2016 USERN Prize in Formal Science at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran. The early career award recognizes scientists under the age of 40 for novel advancements or achievements in scientific education,…

November 6, 2016

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 at the Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) for the paper “Reading Revisited:…

November 2, 2016

Ant Rowstron received the 2016 Mark Weiser Award 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 systems research with “contributions…

November 2, 2016

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.

November 1, 2016

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…