Announcing the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge awardees
By Daron Green, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Today, the USDA and Microsoft announced the winners of the Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge was created in July 2015 to support President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative, which aims to harness climate…
Popular Microsoft Selfie app updated with social sharing
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Released less than a month ago and among the best new apps for iOS, the popular Microsoft Selfie app is adding new features. Microsoft’s Beijing based team behind the app has been paying close…
In the news | China Daily
Microsoft, IBM eye technology to forecast air pollution in China
Yu Zheng, a researcher at Microsoft, told China Daily that technology companies like Microsoft 'can leverage their computing infrastructures, data management, analytics tools and knowledge in data science to help forecast air pollution.'
New thinking in computer education
By Bei Li, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research “The current development of computer science resembles the Renaissance in Italy of the 15th century,” said Tim Pan, director of Microsoft Research Asia, during a keynote speech on "Interdisciplinary Effect" at the…
MICRO-48 highlights diverse research topics
The 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture happened last December and brought interesting discussions to bear. On the technical side, there were three very inspiring keynote speeches and a number of great presentations. The regular paper presentations were also very diverse, covering all…
微软获评2015中国优秀博士后科研工作站
2016年1月——在中华人民共和国人力资源和社会保障部（以下简称：人社部）与全国博士后管理委员会印发的《关于2015年度博士后综合评估结果的通报 (opens in new tab)》中，微软（中国）有限公司被评选为2015中国优秀博士后科研工作站，并受到人社部和全国博士后管理委员会的通报表彰。 此次评选依照人社部2008年发布的《博士后科研流动站和工作站评估办法》要求，对2012年以前设立的20...
In the news | Los Angeles Times
Your job is about to get âtaskifiedâ
The global digital assembly line has arrived. Its workers labor at computer keyboards, performing the behind-the-scenes tasks that make the Internet appear intelligent and functional.
In the news | Communications of the ACM
Seeing More Clearly (ACM .pdf)
Communications of the ACM interviewed Fei-Fei Li, Rob Fergus, Richard Zemel and Xiaodong He on recent progress in computer vision and language processing, interview highlighted in "Seeing More Clearly" in the January 2016 issue of CACM.
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn)
For the 2009 paper, 'Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.'