Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
At Microsoft we talk a lot about being intentional and building a workforce that reflects the communities where we work around the world. That intention was on full display last week in Oakland as Microsoft…
One of the highlights of Satya Nadella’s vision keynote at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 last week was Project Silica where he held out a drink coaster-sized piece of regular quartz glass and shared that the…
The Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on…
For the paper, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones.
Microsoft researchers have released a chatbot version of a cutting-edge text generator trained on tens of millions of Reddit posts—albeit with a disclaimer in place should things get offensive.
A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants’ emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.
Leslie Lamport, Distinguished Scientist, received the NEC C&C Foundation prize (opens in new tab) for outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems. The Foundation presents the C&C Prizes to distinguished persons in…
Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from… oh crap. Reddit.
Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as…