Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft has provided 17 cloud credit awards to Principal Investigators who benefit from NSF supported programs, which already seeing some interesting breakthroughs across the human body, microbial diseases, and even everyday communication.
There is a Chinese proverb that says “见文如见人,” which literally means “reading the document is the same as seeing the author.” If we are what we write, then who have we, as a society, become? I was…
Project HAMS focusses on two factors: the state of the driver and his or her driving relative to other vehicles.
At Microsoft, we believe that for India to become truly digital, we need to make technology accessible and productive for all, irrespective of the language they may speak or read. To break the language barrier,…
Dan Goldstein, principal researcher, and Jake Hofman, senior researcher, have been running experiments to see what kinds of contextual clues help people grasp the meaning of large quantities like distances, dollar amounts, population sizes, and…
Canada is gearing up for its second wave of brain gains in the hot field of artificial intelligence. The country’s global leadership in AI began when deep learning pioneer Geoff Hinton decamped from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie…
Dr. Svore shares her passion for quantum algorithms and their potential to solve some of the worldâs biggest problems, explains why Microsoftâs topological quantum bit â or qubit â is a game changer for quantum…
Ranveer Chandra received a 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, for the FarmBeats AI & IoT Agriculture project. The forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the geospatial community – people…
With machine reading comprehension, researchers say computers also would be able to quickly parse through information found in books and documents and provide people with the information they need most in an easily understandable way.
Dr. Peyton Jones shares his passion for functional programming research, reveals how a desire to help other researchers write and present better turned him into an unlikely YouTube star, and explains why, at least in…