News and Awards

Yonathan Efroni, Gal Dalal, Bruno Scherrer, Shie Mannor receive AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award for How to Combine Tree-Search Methods in Reinforcement Learning.

Dr. Glen Weyl speaks with the calm of a man who has history on the mind. With an unbroken gaze and an unambiguous delivery, the author, economist and Microsoft researcher calmly espouses a clear and…

Members of Microsoft Research, together with students from Dutch and Danish universities, have won a cucumber-growing competition held in autonomous greenhouses at Wageningen University and Research in Holland. Team Sonoma, as it’s known, beat out…

The advancements that now come forward in this part of Microsoft’s ML brain play result in part from experimentation carried out by Nicolo Fusi, who works in the automated machine learning research team at Microsoft…

Yesterday, Microsoft with the goal to standardize homomorphic encryption, open sourced Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL) under the MIT License. It is an easy-to-use homomorphic encryption library developed by researchers in the Cryptography…

To accelerate the standardisation of homomorphic encryption, Microsoft has open sourced its ‘Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library.’ Homomorphic encryption is designed to better protect Internet-facing databases.

We are pleased to announce the open source release of HE-Transformer, a homomorphic encryption (HE) backend to nGraph, Intel’s neural network compiler. HE allows computation on encrypted data. This capability, when applied to machine learning,…

The library is designed specifically with cloud computing use cases in mind, giving customers a way to interact with encrypted data stored on cloud services without downloading and decrypting it, or having to give the…