News and Awards

danah boyd, Principal Researcher, received a 2019 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Barlow/Pioneer award (opens in new tab) in recognition of her leading role as a Trailblazing Technology Scholar. danah boyd has consistently been one of the…

Turnaround time for Ambient clinical intelligence to complete reports in the EHR is 50 percent lower than anticipated.

D’Angelo, a 21-year Microsoft employee, and colleagues around the world worked to finish building MirrorHR – an Epilepsy Research Kit for Kids – in July at The Garage’s annual Global Hackathon and named this year’s…

Mary Gray talked about her book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, in which she reported on the workforce that drives large technology companies like Amazon, Google, and…

Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has taught itself the intricacies of Mahjong and can now match the skills of some of the world’s top players.

AR, VR, XR…. Do you want to better understand these technologies that are disrupting our daily lives? In our very first episode of #ShowMeTech, the new digital show produced in tandem with the Digital Festival,…

要说中国最流行、群众基础最深厚的运动是什么，那一定是历史悠久、老少咸宜的“国粹”——麻将。 麻将的起源众说纷纭，今天我们熟知的麻将玩法大体成型于晚清，在当时称作“麻雀”。随着商贸与外交活动的开展，麻将渐渐风行亚洲，乃至流传到世界各地，成为蕴含着古老的东方哲学与博弈智慧的“一股神秘的东方力量”。在今天，无论是逢年过节的热闹团圆，还是日常小聚的茶余饭后，随时随地，凑齐四个人一桌牌就能打个热火朝天。

Dr. Olli Saarikivi, along with a stellar group of cross-disciplinary colleagues, are bridging the gap with CHET, a compiler and runtime for homomorphic evaluation of tensor programs, that keeps data private while making the complexities…

UC Santa Barbara selected as charter member of Microsoft’s Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance. At an ever-increasing rate, people around the world are turning to the cloud — a globally distributed computer network connected…