Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft Research AI project automates driver’s license tests in India
What if your driverâs license test will now be conducted by a smartphone attached to your carâs windshield and without an evaluator present in the vehicle? This is not science fiction. It is already happening.
Novartis and Microsoft announce collaboration to transform medicine with artificial intelligence
Novartis today announced an important step in reimagining medicine by founding the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selecting Microsoft Corp. as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort.
Gary J. Sullivan Receives the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers award citation: The 2019 Digital Processing Medal is awarded to Gary J. Sullivan in recognition of his innovation and industry leadership in image and video compression. Sullivan has…
Mary Gray: “Today’s economy depends on ‘ghost workers'”
The author and Mary Gray argues that platform work could make the work of hundreds of millions of people invisible and that this tends to alienate and precarious their situation. Ask for new laws and…
Achieved No. 1 on GLUE Leaderboard
Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft announce a major collaboration to develop an open data differential privacy platform
Microsoft teams with Harvard to build a platform to ensure data is kept private, while enabling researchers from academia, government, nonprofits, and the private sector to gain new and novel insights that can rapidly advance…
CyberPeace Institute fills a critical need for cyberattack victims
Today, with the launch of the CyberPeace Institute, the world will gain an important new ally in understanding the impact of cyberattacks, in working to develop rules for proper conduct in cyberspace and in helping…
Micro Focus Vertica, Timescale, Microsoft, and MinIO named winners of 2019 Strata Data Awards in New York
STRATA DATA CONFERENCE – O’Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the winners of the 2019 Strata Data Awards, recognizing the most innovative data-driven startups, projects, and initiatives from…
Micro Focus Vertica, Timescale, Microsoft, and MinIO named winners of 2019 Strata Data Awards in New York
STRATA DATA CONFERENCE – O’Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the winners of the 2019 Strata Data Awards, recognizing the most innovative data-driven startups, projects, and initiatives from…