LiveLabs: Testing the usefulness of mobile data
Researchers at Singapore Management University are collaborating with Microsoft on LiveLabs, a test-bed in-situ, real-time experimentation of mobile applications and services that require...
View ArticleExposing young people to linguistics
Researcher Monojit Choudhury says Microsoft's fundamental research on natural language processing, speech-to-speech, and automated translation drives its partnership in the annual International...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers accelerate computer vision accuracy and improve 3D...
Read a summary and download papers on advancements in deep learning presented by Microsoft researchers at the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Boston.
View ArticleProject Premonition aims to use mosquitoes, drones, cloud computing to...
Microsoft researchers are collaborating with academic partners across multiple disciplines to develop a system that aims to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread.
View ArticleProject Premonition: Bringing researchers together to detect diseases before...
Experts within Microsoft Research from hardware prototyping, software development and machine learning are joining with experts at universities in public health, genetics, computer science,...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers tie for best image captioning technology
Microsoft and Google tied for first place in the recent MS COCO Image Captioning Challenge 2015, considered the basis for more sophisticated artificial intelligence systems that can see, hear, speak...
View ArticleMicrosoft can forecast China air pollution with Windows Phone app, new website
Using cloud power and data imported from China Meteorological Administration monitoring stations, the system developed by Microsoft Research Asia can tell the air quality level in a 300-kilometer area...
View ArticleMicrosoft researcher wins prestigious computer graphics award for hyperlapse...
Johannes Kopf, a Microsoft researcher who specializes in computer graphics and was key to the development of Microsoft Hyperlapse, has been awarded the 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.
View ArticleZ3 wins 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Award
Microsoft Research's Z3 theorem prover received the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for "a system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in...
View ArticleUsing and improving big data analytics to predict weather, climate change,...
Microsoft researcher Drew Purves and AccuWeather Vice President Jon Porter dive deep into predictive analytics in the fourth episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series.
View ArticleThe high-tech research behind making Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer better for...
Two tools developed by Microsoft Research, Trill and Tempe, enable groups like the Halo team to very quickly analyze large amounts of real-time customer data for any unusual activity and identify and...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Jeannette Wing honored for transforming how the world views...
Jeannette Wing, a Microsoft corporate vice president, will receive the Association for Computing Machinery's distinguished service award, recognizing her as "a leader who has transformed the way the...
View ArticleAward-winning theory from Microsoft researcher goes beyond famous Nash...
Microsoft researcher Vasilis Syrgkanis and two colleagues this week unveiled a new approach to understanding and optimizing online bidding and auctions, with implications far beyond the online...
View ArticleRanking NBA draft prospects according to wisdom of the crowd
Microsoft researchers Justin Rao and David Rothschild detail their approach to determining the best prospects in this year's NBA draft.
View ArticleInnovation from the ground up and into the cloud
Among the highlights celebrating the first anniversary of the Microsoft Research–Lomonosov MSU Joint Research Center in Russia were events on cloud computing for research.
View ArticleAnnouncing the Microsoft Academic Graph: Let the research begin!
The Microsoft Academic Graph is available for download, allowing researchers "to study the structure of scientific knowledge, build better algorithms for mapping the ever-expanding corpus and improving...
View ArticleNASA's taking Microsoft's HoloLens to the space station
The NASA Sidekick program will use Microsoft's HoloLens as a tool to allow NASA ground control to peer over the shoulders of NASA engineers.
View ArticleTop student research recognized at ACM banquet
The ACM Student Research Competition, sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and...
View ArticleThe world of wearables: Microsoft Band and whole-body computing
In the latest Next at Microsoft podcast, Desney Tan and Amish Patel discuss wearable technology (such as the Microsoft Band) and whole-body computing.
View ArticleDon Syme, developer of .NET Generics, gets Royal Academy of Engineering...
Don Syme, a principal researcher in Microsoft's Cambridge, U.K. lab, was honored for his contributions to the engineering community, including .NET Generics and his many other contributions that...
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