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Researchers in their mid-career should expand on their current capacities to grow beyond good research and, instead, become drivers of innovation. In this article, the author explores five traits that user researchers should carry with them on their journey.

In the news | SIGMOBILE

For the paper, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones.

Awards | ACM

The Test of Time Award was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field. Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee  received the…

In the news | AdWeek

Microsoft researchers have released a chatbot version of a cutting-edge text generator trained on tens of millions of Reddit posts—albeit with a disclaimer in place should things get offensive.

In the news | The Architect's Paper

A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants' emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.

Awards | NEC C&C Foundation

Leslie Lamport, Distinguished Scientist, received the NEC C&C Foundation prize for outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems. The Foundation presents the C&C Prizes to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or…

In the news | The Register

Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from... oh crap. Reddit.

In the news | Ars Technica

Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for…