News and Awards

Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, and Eric Horvitz received the 2017 Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval for their 2005 paper, Personalizing Search via Automated…

We’ve seen eye-tracking technology make PC gaming more immersive, and now Microsoft is building it right into Windows itself, so you can navigate and type with just your eyes. Delivered inside of build 16257 of…

Sometimes, a simple email can lead to a life-changing breakthrough. In 2014, former NFL player Steve Gleason, who has a neuromuscular disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sent an email to Microsoft, challenging employees at…

Azure Event Hubs enable such functions as receiving water quality incident alerts from specific locations via a smartphone app.

Over millennia, nature has evolved an incredible information storage medium—DNA. It evolved to store genetic information, blueprints for building proteins, but DNA can be used for many more purposes than just that.

Fast and scalable molecular logic circuits can be created through the spatial organization of DNA hairpins on DNA origami scaffolds.

Microsoft Outreach, through its partnership with the Big Data Hubs organized an Azure workshop and participated in a panel discussion on ‘How Cloud Computing Can Enable Transportation Data Science.’

BBC Newsnight’s technology editor David Grossman has been given exclusive access to Microsoft’s AI labs in Seattle to see how the future of Artificial Intelligence is shaping up.