News and Awards

For many of us, life begins in the hospital—and so does our health data. Health organizations worldwide are amassing more information than ever before from millions of patients throughout their lifetimes. Wrangling massive volumes of…

Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it…

Today’s intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes and read…

Chris Bishop was appointed along with other leaders from business, academia and data privacy organizations to the UK’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council created to help boost growth of AI in the UK by promoting its…

Hamid Palangi, Senior Researcher, Jianfeng Gao, Partner Research Manager, and their collaborators received the prestigious 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper award (Test of Time) for their work on deep sentence embedding for web…

Microsoft Research’s ‘Project Denmark’ technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more.

Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager, was awarded the title of EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) Fellow. This is the inaugural year for this award and goes to individuals with extraordinary accomplishments in their…