Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
| Jennifer Chayes
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep societal impact. My research has…
Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV
A technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays will receive an Emmy® Award on October 25. The 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, was announced…
Awards | Microsoft Research Blog
High Efficiency Video Coding awarded 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy
High Efficiency Video Coding, a technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays, received a 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Gary Sullivan, who works on…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
| Kenji Takeda
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every person on Earth to provide…
In the news | NY Times
Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains
Awards | Ubicomp 2017
John Krumm receives Ubicomp 10-Year Impact Award for 2007 paper
John Krumm received a 10-Year Impact Award for his 2007 paper, Inference Attacks on Location Tracks, at the 2017 ACM Ubicomp Conference, a gathering of experts in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The paper exposed real-world privacy vulnerabilities associated with GPS-enabled devices and…
In the news | Mozilla Security Blog
Verified cryptography for Firefox 57
Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very hard for programmers to write bug-free software. These bugs are…
In the news | Der Spiegel
How Microsoft and Google want to beat cancer
As a first step, Microsoft wants to teach machines to read so that they understand the text, because most of the medical knowledge lies in texts: endless information on biological processes, therapeutic mechanisms and clinical studies is buried on billions…
Nominations wanted: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program 2018
| Sandy Blyth
At Microsoft Research, we are on the lookout for exceptional students to apply for our two-year PhD fellowship program. Our fellowships are for students in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary studies intersecting with those domains…