Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Station Q is where Microsoft is building its vision for the future of computing.

Microsoft Research is one of several groups within Microsoft helping to support the Food Resilience theme of the White House’s Climate Data Initiative by exposing pertinent data sets in the cloud using Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have teamed up to tackle “food resilience,” one of several themes that make up the White House’s Climate Data Initiative.

The 15th annual Microsoft Faculty Summit is over, but you can still experience much of it on demand.

Ph.D. students from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa convenced in Cambridge, England, in June for the Microsoft Research Cambridge 2014 Ph.D. Summer School.

Nikhil Srivastava, one of three collaborators who recently won a prestigious prize for proving a half-century-old mathematical conjecture, discusses his achievement and his work.

A Microsoft researcher is working toward a multisensory future for our devices.

Microsoft moves from experiment to deployment of FPGAs to deliver faster search results.

During SIGGRAPH 2014, Microsoft Research revealed how to transform any video camera into a useful depth camera.

Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, discusses computational thinking, security and privacy in a world of big data, and her fondness for the nickname her former students bestowed upon her.

Tony Hey of Microsoft Research discusses his keynote address during the sixth annual Computing at School conference, held at the U.K.'s Birmingham University.

WindUp is a project from Microsoft Research to learn how people create, share, and discuss content online.

Papers, awards, and accolades during SIGCOMM 2014 highlight Microsoft achievements in the networking community, while deployments in Azure data centers underscore the value of collaboration between research and product teams.

Turing winner loves to solve practical problems.

Gordon Bell, who turns 80 today, has lived through an era in which computers occupied entire building through to being able to carry one in your pocket or around your neck.

The WorldWide Telescope Digital Dome project is bringing enhanced planetarium experiences to Chinese schools at every level.

Nearly every tech company uses the same imperfect mechanism to flag abuse.

The quirky cant of Twitter and Facebook helped Microsoft build the tools for its real-time translator.

Microsoft researcher Kristen Lauter, president-elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics, says that the Fields Medal won by Stanford's Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to claim the honor, could inspire more women to study math.

Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research delivered a keynote address during KDD 2014 that focused on the use of data with machine learning and reasoning procedures to generate predictions and to enhance the quality of decisions in several critical areas.

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