Awards | ACM SIGMOBILE
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile devices using existing infrastructure and directly informed techniques that…
By George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us -- they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate…
By Judith Bishop (opens in new tab), Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research A thriving research and development ecosystem relies on connecting innovators with the tools for innovation. When we launched the Microsoft Open Source Challenge (opens in new tab)…
In the news | Womanthology
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane is a specialist in mathematical…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made computing giants such as Google,…
By Xin Ma, University Relations Regional Manager of China, Microsoft Research Asia Guardian to Future Generations: 10-Year Quest for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Supporting development of local talent has long been part of Microsoft’s commitment to Chinese education. I joined the…
In the news | Wired
IT'S ALMOST A given that you'll ride in an autonomous car at some point in your life, and when you do, the AI controlling it just might have honed its skills playing Minecraft.
By Kenji Takeda, Solution Architect and Technical Manager, Microsoft Research Jacob Katuva used to get up at dawn to cycle 12 miles from his village to collect water with his uncles and cousins when he was growing up in Kenya.…
In the news | Techradar
Gears of War 4 will be the first game in the world to use Triton, a sound technology that accurately maps sound in 3D spaces.