Core Concept: Homomorphic encryption
Kristin Lauter, research manager of Microsoft's Cryptography Research group whose work focuses on homomorphic encryption to help keep consumer and patient data safe, is featured in the latest PNAS...
View ArticlePrivacy and accuracy: How Cynthia Dwork is improving data analysis
Cynthia Dwork, a cryptographer and distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, discusses her groundbreaking work on differential privacy and how it can help researchers guarantee the accuracy of...
View ArticleHow's the weather? Using artificial intelligence for better answers
Microsoft's Ashish Kapoor and other researchers are using artificial intelligence to try to create better weather forecasts, building on previous work they did using thousands of airplanes as wind...
View ArticleMaking machines speak like people
A collaborative effort between Yonsei University and Microsoft Research not only seeks to make natural conversation between humans and machines possible, but also to create a collaborative ecosystem...
View ArticleNew app creates stylized story compilations from your photos
Photo Story is a new Windows Phone app that automatically selects the best photos of the day and creates a stylized video that you can easily share via email or social media.
View ArticleMicrosoft researcher Jamie Shotton receives MIT Tech Review young innovator...
Shotton will be honored as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35. The distinction goes to exceptionally talented young innovators whose work the editors believe has the greatest potential...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Albert Greenberg honored with SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award
Albert Greenberg, a distinguished engineer who works on networking development at Microsoft, this week received the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Award for pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier...
View ArticleOpen source software from Microsoft for academics
Academics are invited to visit Microsoft Research's new portal for open source projects to explore the available software, use it in their classes and research, and join in adding code to make the...
View ArticleMobileFusion: Create 3D scans with your mobile phone
MobileFusion is a research project that turns ordinary mobile phones into 3D scanners without any additional hardware. The resulting 3D scans are detailed enough for 3D printing or use in...
View ArticleMicrosoft says programmable chips will make AI software smarter
As deep learning has led to recent breakthroughs in how accurately software can recognize images and speech, new progress on a practical way to power up deep learning software even more could lead to...
View ArticleAll that RaaS: saving lives and transforming healthcare economics
The introduction of cloud computing and machine learning to health care is helping researchers identify ways to reduce hospital readmissions for chronic conditions and provide corresponding actionable...
View ArticleMicrosoft extends FPGA reach from Bing to deep learning
Researchers believe success with field programmable gate arrays can be applied to accelerate deep learning approaches, including convolutional neural networks, deep belief neural networks, and...
View ArticleChris Bishop begins role as new director of Microsoft Research Cambridge
Bishop, a Microsoft distinguished scientist who previously served as the lab's deputy managing director, takes charge of Microsoft Research Cambridge. "Our breadth is one of our great strengths," he says.
View ArticleIntimidation factor zero: A coding curriculum for beginners and their teachers
Creative Coding Through Games And Apps is a new computer science curriculum designed for teens who may not have expressed much interest in programming -- and teachers who don't necessarily have any...
View ArticleResearchers make advances in database security "arms race"
Seny Kamara, a researcher in Microsoft's cryptography group, and his academic colleagues have figured out a way to obtain personal information from certain encrypted databases even when the databases...
View ArticleWhy Micro Datacenters really matter to mobile's future
Microsoft researcher and distinguished scientist Victor Bahl discusses the importance of Micro Datacenters, or "cloudlets," for optimizing the performance and usefulness of mobile and other networked...
View ArticleMicrosoft Student Summer Camp embodies the hacker spirit
The camp, which marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Microsoft Student Club in China, brought together 132 students from 34 universities across the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
View ArticleMeeting the data challenges of urban computing
Learn how researchers are using Microsoft Azure's powerful processing capabilities to solve important problems facing big cities.
View ArticleCan smartphones use less energy to browse the web?
Microsoft researcher Yunxin Liu and a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have discovered three techniques to reduce the energy consumption of web page loading on...
View ArticleHow research supports collaboration in the new Office
Machine learning underlies key research contributions to Office 2016 and Office 365 from Microsoft researchers and engineers.
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