In the news | Electro Optics
Ariel Gomez Diaz named one of the Photonics100 for 2025
Microsoft Research senior optical scientist Ariel Gomez Diaz was selected for the 2025 Photonics100 list, which celebrates individuals driving innovation in photonics and optical technology worldwide. Ariel's work explores revolutionary optical technologies with tangible applications for cloud infrastructure.
In the news | Cleo Abram (YouTube)
Why Can’t I Vote Online?
Why can’t I vote online? And what would happen if I could? Over the past two months, I called up a bunch of voting and security experts to try to answer that question. And the answer I found is more…
Find My Things: New teachable AI tool helps blind and low-vision people locate lost personal items
| Martin Grayson, Daniela Massiceti, Cecily Morrison, and Karolina Pakėnaitė
Teachable AI is personalizing accessibility for people with disabilities, giving them the power to train AI-based tools and apps to provide help in their daily lives. Find My Things, available with the Seeing AI app, is a great example.
For many years, Microsoft Research has empowered people with disabilities by creating leading-edge assistive technologies—from wheelchairs they can control with their eyes to AI-based tools they can train to find lost personal items. Learn more.
Intern Insights: Vaishnavi Ranganathan with Angela Busheska
| Vaishnavi Ranganathan and Angela Busheska
Undergrad Angela Busheska has a passion for sustainability. She talks with researcher Vaishnavi Ranganathan about the why behind her drive, the work she did at Microsoft on a platform for tracking land use, and her advice for making the internship…
In the news | Microsoft
The 2024 Microsoft Impact Summary
In our annual Impact Summary report, we highlight how Microsoft is meeting the moment with AI to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted future.
In the news | Undark
Interview: Are We Misinformed About Misinformation
In June, the journal Nature published a perspective suggesting that the harms of online misinformation have been misunderstood. The paper’s authors, representing four universities and Microsoft, conducted a review of the behavioral science literature and identified what they characterize as…
In the news | Microsoft WorkLab Podcast
Tackling the World’s Toughest Problems with AI
The director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab on how the technology is helping to address intractable global challenges—and what all leaders can learn from those efforts.
In the news | GeekWire
The top three AI challenges and trends on the mind of Microsoft Research’s president
What’s next for AI, and what are the main technical hurdles to overcome? That was one of the questions we asked when working on our deep dive into Microsoft’s history and future in artificial intelligence, published last week to launch…