In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
In the news | GeekWire
Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we're familiar with in the U.S.: Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Facebook's M, Google Now, and Microsoft's own Cortana.
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery's Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
Ratul Mahajan selected as 2015 Association for Computing Machinery's Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
In the news | Slashdot
The healthcare sector gets a hand from Microsoft, who will release a new encryption algorithm which will allow developers to handle genomic data in encrypted format, without the need of decryption, and by doing so, minimizing security risks.
In the news | ITNews
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
In the news | The Register
As genome research - and the genomes themselves - get passed around the scientific community, the world's woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published ways to help scientists work…
In the news | Tom's Hardware
Microsoft released a 'manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,' which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
In the news | HEAT Project Blog
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have just announced a project called…