Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of…
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times. Consultant oncologist Dr Raj Jena has been working with Microsoft Research for the past eight…
Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different…
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed…
Since the first IntelliCode (opens in new tab) code completion model was shipped in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in 2018, it has become an essential coding assistant for millions of developers around the world. In the past two years, we have been working tirelessly to enable IntelliCode for more programming languages and, in the meantime, researching ways to improve the model…
Johannes Schönberger received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2020 (opens in new tab) for his selfless contribution to developing and maintaining the COLMAP SFM and MVS software library which provides an open-source end-to-end…
Yannai Gonczarowski, along with co-authors Lior Kovalio, Noam Nisan, and Assaf Romm, receive Rothkopf Prize for Matching for the Israeli ‘Mechinot’ Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements
Microsoft Research has announced a new project – Microsoft TileCode, (opens in new tab) which is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds (opens…
Technology companies are familiar with viruses which infect our systems but when the coronavirus struck this was unprecedented. As Dennis Crispin, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) Group Manager recalls, “the COVID-19 global pandemic required us to…
Although most Microsoft enterprise customers pay on time, over the last few years approximately 20% of customers pay late. Microsoft’s yearly revenue is over US$100bn, and the cost of capital due to late payments represented…