October 23, 2017 | Peli de Halleux

  A few years ago, my group in Microsoft’s research organization began to experiment with tools that make it possible for kids to learn how to code in the context of Minecraft, the wildly popular game where players build fantastical…

October 20, 2017 | Kenji Takeda

Alan Turing asked the question “can machines think?” in 1950 and it still intrigues us today. At The Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science in London, more than 150 researchers are pursuing this question by…

October 19, 2017

We are excited to launch a new feature today: Cite. You will notice the "Cite" link under each paper on the search results page, and on each paper detail page. Clicking it enables you to copy the citation using three…

October 11, 2017

During September 19-20, 2017, Microsoft Research Asia held a two-day PhD Forum event for past and future Fellows. This year’s event was packed with scientific and training elements, a fireside chat on career development, and plenty of networking opportunities.

October 11, 2017

When data mining large datasets, it’s usually difficult to achieve both efficiency and accuracy. If you search efficiently, accuracy is lost; if you require accuracy, it’s hard to be efficient. But through the development of an elegant and remarkably simple…

October 6, 2017

In a group — Microsoft Research — where most of the researchers have PhDs, what can high school students contribute? How can Microsoft contribute to high school students? Those questions were answered this summer, when Microsoft Research hosted several high-school-age…