编者按：微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是最新、最丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，抑或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到微软亚洲研究院探索领域内前沿新知。 年轻、开拓、探索，是铸星计划的关键词；合作、创新、成就，是每个学术新星发光闪耀的必经之途。通过“铸星计划”，来自...
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft’s new Climate Research Initiative is a multi-disciplinary collaboration project for researchers
While the US Supreme Court restricts the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb emissions in the United States, Microsoft just launched its Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) collective to "accelerate cutting-edge research and transformative innovation in climate science and technology."
In the news | Bloomberg
Microsoft Targets Carbon Removal With Climate Research Effort
Microsoft Corp. has launched a climate research effort in a bid to build a network of participants to tackle some key problems affecting the environment. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative will at first focus on carbon reduction and removal, carbon accounting and environmental resilience, the…
Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society.
In the news | Quanta Magazine
Can Computers Be Mathematicians?
Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate math into language that computers understand.
In the news | Geekwire
Microsoft launches Climate Research Initiative to collaborate on climate change challenges
Microsoft is launching a new research initiative aimed at fighting climate change, the company announced Wednesday. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) aims to harness the tech giant’s research and computing expertise as it collaborates with academic institutions.
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl receives ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2022
Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft Research) along with coauthors Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research), and Nigel Davies (Lancaster University), received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2022 for their paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile…
WWW (Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference) is one of the most important international conferences in the field of Internet technology. WWW 2022 was held as an online conference in Lyon, France, on April 25-29. A total of 1,822 long…
Awards | Web Science Trust
Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award
The Web Science Trust (WST) awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award to Mumum De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz the authors of “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”. The award…