Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Azure services now run anywhere with new hybrid capabilities: Announcing Azure Arc
Enterprises rely on a hybrid technology approach to take advantage of their on-premises investment and, at the same time, utilize cloud innovation. As more business operations and applications expand to include edge devices and multiple…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s 5 Biggest Statements At Ignite 2019
With its latest wave of product announcements, Microsoft is focused squarely on turning every company into a tech company, CEO Satya Nadella said Monday during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference. Ignite, Microsoft’s conference for IT…
Microsoft’s ‘Project Silica’ targets glass as the archival storage medium of the future
Microsoft has the broadest portfolio of software of any company, and at the firmâs annual Ignite conference, it proved it by introducing a raft of new products and services in cloud, development, security and management,…
Microsoft provides Indian RTOs with AI software to take driving license tests
Microsoft has stated that its HAMS project enables the driver’s license testing to be an objective and transparent process. Microsoft has announced that its Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) AI project is being used at…
Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoft’s AI project
An AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team, HAMS uses a smartphone’s front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.
Best Paper Award in ACM SOSP 2019
For the paper, ‘Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection â Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing.’
Microsoft’s AI-based ‘HAMS’ automates driver license tests in India
Microsoft Research has developed a smartphone-based driving test system that leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence to make a fair analysis of a driver’s ability before issuing him or her a license. The system has…
Four Microsoft researchers selected as 2019 ACM Distinguished Members
Weidong Cui, Andrew Begel, Landon Cox, and Xing Xie have been recognized as 2019 Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (opens in new tab) (ACM) for their significant contributions to technologies that underpin how…