Quantum computing has the potential to utterly overturn what it means to compute. At Microsoft, we have been studying quantum computation since the late nineties with an eye towards a scalable universal quantum computer. Quantum computers compute in a massively…
By Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research We are pleased to announce the Microsoft HoloLens Academic Research request for proposals (RFP), which will enable the academic community to join us in advancing the creation of new holographic computing experiences.…
Chris Burges and Erin Renshaw received the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Test of Time Award for their prescient machine learning work published in the 2005 paper, Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent. They co-authored the paper with Tal…
Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering
Polina Bayvel FREng, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks, the members of the ONG team Dr Lidia Galdino, Dr Robert Killey, Dr Robert Maher, Dr Seb Savory and Dr Benn Thomsen, received the 2015 Royal Academy of Engineering’s prestigious Colin…
We are incredibly pleased to announce that the WorldWide Telescope is now open source under the MIT license and has become an independent project as part of the .NET Foundation. WorldWide Telescope began in 2007 as a Microsoft Research project,…
On July 8–9, more than 350 academic researchers and educators will join Microsoft researchers and engineers for the sixteenth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. The annual Faculty Summit is one of those rare events that brings together…
Posted by Allison Linn When Chris J.C. Burges came to Microsoft Research in 2000, he knew he wanted to work on machine learning projects that would have a real impact on users. Burges definitely succeeded: He ended up being part…
Awards | UK Academy of Engineering
Don Syme named one of three winners of the prestigious UK Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2015 for an outstanding personal contribution to engineering by an early to mid-career engineer resulting in market exploitation. Read more >
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Many programmers recognize Don Syme's name, but even more are influenced daily by his research and development. After all, Syme, a principal researcher in Microsoft's Cambridge, U.K., lab, has helped to develop and influence features…