By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Eric Horvitz is sitting at his desk in his Redmond, Wash., office, discussing Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager 2.0 (OMM), a just-released, downloadable add-in for Microsoft Outlook, when something on his computer monitor catches…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research John Krumm, a researcher for Microsoft Research, is one of four co-writers of Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-Scale Wi-Fi Localization, a research paper accepted for presentation during MobiSys 2005, the Third International Conference on…
Senior Microsoft Corp. Researcher Susan Dumais predicts that in 10 years, we will look back on today's search interfaces and recognize them as a simple and limited way to interact with information. After all, she explains, a 5-inch-long rectangle with…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Hugues Hoppe is a quiet man. He sits quietly, he talks quietly, and his smile, which he uses often, is as calm as Mona Lisa. For such a quiet man, he's made himself heard…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Sumit Gulwani was awarded the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award shortly after starting his career at Microsoft Research and after he completed his PhD at University of California, Berkeley. It is an award presented annually to the author of…
Awards | International Committee for Information Technology Standards
Gary J. Sullivan received the Technical Excellence Award of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2005. The award letter stated that Sullivan's “contributions to the success of the INCITS L3 program of work are invaluable,” that his…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research If you want to go to another country, it would behoove you to learn the language of the land. Luca Cardelli, an Italian researcher working in England, knows this lesson well. He wants to…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Go is more than a game. It spans centuries, it's integrated into religion, politics, and business, it's been embraced by poets and warriors, and it's considered one of the great artificial intelligence challenges today.…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Isaac Asimov, the famous science fiction writer, had a vision of a world called Gaia. Gaia was a world that was aware of its inhabitants — it could heal them and react to them.…