Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award (opens in new tab) for their application…
Ofer Dekel leads a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers and interns at research labs in Redmond and Bangalore, India, that is developing a new class of machine-learning software and tools to embed artificial…
Researchers Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft’s Audio and Research Group, say that an individual interpretation of acoustic reception depends on the bodily motion while listening to sound. Even head movements could vary…
Snow leopards are highly endangered animals that inhabit high-altitude steppes and mountainous terrain in Asia and Central Asia. There’s only an estimated 3900-6500 individuals left in the wild. Due the cats’ remote habitat, expansive range…
The way you hear and interpret the sounds around you changes as you move. That’s how sound in the real world works. Now imagine if it worked that way while you were listening to a…
Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft’s Audio and Acoustics Research Group, explain how they are using head related transfer functions (HRTF) to create an immersive sound environment.
The late Charles P. Thacker was honored with the ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award (opens in new tab) for fundamental networking and distributed computing contributions. Thacker, known as Chuck to friends and colleagues, designed the Alto (opens in new…
To really stop people from dying on city streets, identify and fix dangerous places before fatalities happen. New technology called “Vision Analytics” does just that. Vision Analytics is the result of a partnership between Microsoft,…
The 2017 Gödel Prize (opens in new tab) for outstanding paper in theoretical computer science was awarded to Cynthia Dwork along with former Microsoft Research colleagues Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith for “Calibrating Noise to…