Building the Talent Pipeline: The HKUST Joint Lab Story
Collaboration between Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Microsoft Research Asia helps students pursue research in many areas, from computer vision and graphics to visualization...
View ArticleOrleans Simplifies Development of Scalable Apps for the Cloud
Project Orleans from Microsoft Research enables developers to work above the cloud by handling complexities such as reliability and distributed resource management, making building scalable apps for...
View ArticleNCWIT and Microsoft Research Kick Start Academic Programs for Attracting...
The National Center for Women and Information Technology today awarded $40,000 to the eleventh-round recipients of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund, which is sponsored by Microsoft Research.
View Article2015 Oscars Prediction Model Navigates Backlash, Outrage, Shifting Sentiment
While it may be difficult to name a year in which The Oscars were not embroiled in some controversy regarding nominees, this year seems particularly pronounced. Yet, notes Microsoft researcher David...
View ArticleScholarship Aims To Increase Women in Computing
Microsoft Research, committed to increasing women’s presence in computing, announces this year's winners of the Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship.
View ArticleCelebrating Diversity in Computing
The value of diversity is why Microsoft Research is pleased to join with other groups across the company to support the 2015 ACM Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, which brings together...
View Article2015 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Projects Announced
Microsoft Research's Cambridge lab announces funding and collaborative assistance for 19 PhD projects. The sholarship programme, has, since 2004, funded more than 200 academic research projects in...
View ArticleMachine Learning Gets Big Boost from Ultra-Efficient Convolutional Neural...
Microsoft researcher Doug Burger announces a breakthrough in high-performance machine learning based on an ultra-efficient convolutional neural network accelerator.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Oscar Win: Prediction Model Nails 20 out of 24 Awards
It was a big night for Hollywood, and also for Microsoft. A prediction model developed by David Rothschild, an economist in Microsoft Research’s New York City lab, correctly pegged 20 out of 24 of the...
View ArticleHow Microsoft's Oscar-predicting Artificial Intelligence Is Even Better than...
The UpTake: Microsoft's New York City based research lab nailed their Oscar predictions last night, which could be good news for businesses using the technology.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Expands Microsoft Band Productivity Functionality
Microsoft researchers' innovations add a virtual keyboard and voice replies to Microsoft Band, along with machine-learning enhancements to canned responses.
View ArticleThe Human Touch in Computing
Microsoft's research collaboration with Chinese University of Hong Kong focuses on computing that recognizes natural human gestures and voice commands, and responds accordingly.
View ArticleMicrosoft Builds Concepts and Ideas into Features and Functionality
Today there were two great examples of how Microsoft takes ideas and encourages company employees to build them into reality.The first example relates to the Microsoft Band updates that were released...
View ArticleChinese Tradition Inspires Machine Learning Advancements, Product Contributions
A new online Chinese riddle game is steeped in more than just tradition. It resulted from a challenge between colleagues to build a computer that could solve riddles, and, in turn, has led to numerous...
View ArticleDreaming Big at SxSWedu: Promoting IT to Young Girls
Microsoft Research's Rane Johnson-Stempson blogs from SxSWedu about promoting computer science careers to young women, and the screening of the inspirational film, "Big Dream."
View ArticleBill Buxton and Kat Holmes on Microsoft's Philosophy of Design
In the second episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series, Bill Buxton and Kat Holmes offer a glimpse into how Microsoft is bringing inclusive, human-centered thinking to the user’s experience with...
View ArticleEinstein Brings Advanced Artificial Intelligence to Cortana on Windows 10 and...
An advanced version of Cortana, Microsoft's "personal assistant" on Windows phones, and based on Microsoft Research's artificial intelligence project called "Einstein," will be available on Windows 10,...
View ArticleLab of Things Enables Research and Teaching
An update on the creative and noteworthy ways students and researchers are using the flexible Lab of Things platform for connected devices.
View ArticleCryptographer's challenge: Keeping genetic secrets while advancing genetic...
Microsoft researcher Kristin Lauter is at the forefront of a push to make sure human genome data can be securley stored, accessed and used for research -- without falling victim to prying eyes.
View ArticleMachine Learning, Computational Science, Networks and Programming Converge in...
Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer of Microsoft UK, and Dr. Kenji Takeda, of the Cambridge research lab, discuss the future of big data and its potential impact.
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