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Hanna Wallach was honored with the Borg Early Career Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). For a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed…
By Jaime Puente, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microsoft Research Attendees at the 2016 Microsoft Research Latin America Faculty Summit. Eleven years ago, a few of my colleagues and I envisioned a gathering of the Latin American computer science research…
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Is Pluto a planet? And how is that question related to Data Science? For sure, physical properties of Pluto do not change if we call it a "planet", a "dwarf planet", a "candelabrum", or a "sea cow". Pluto stays the…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to better secure both the latest, cutting-edge consumer technologies and the more traditional tools that we rely on for everyday activities like accessing bank records and identifying ourselves…
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award. The award was presented Thursday, May 19, at the International Conference…
By Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Dr. Kuansan Wang is the Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, responsible for overseeing research and innovation in the area of academic services. Photo credit: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures Progress in AI research…
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Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award.
By Daron Green, Managing Director, Microsoft Research The February 2016 winners of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund spoke about their projects at the Summit on Women and IT in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday. Winning projects receive up to US$10,000…
By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research Throughout his life, Albert Einstein, who pioneered the theory of relativity, was skeptical about quantum computing. He was of the opinion that the quantum mechanical theory was incomplete, and was “spooky…