News and Awards

The result of a collaboration between the artist, Keith Salmon, and Microsoft’s experimental technology centre, The Oregon Project is a new stage in creating truly accessible art.

Microsoft Corp. is buying into Canada’s artificial intelligence research community with a deal to purchase Maluuba, a deep-learning and AI-technology startup based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal.

Xbox researcher Jessie Thomas participates in a panel discussion at the Univeristy of Notre Dame on unconscious assumptions that influence judgment and perception of others, and how to deal with them in an assertive, effective,…

A new Microsoft Research team, Project Sopris, is looking to redesign microcontrollers in the name of making low-cost IoT devices more secure.

The Project Sopris team has tested different approaches to device security from silicon to software and have found optimal device security must be rooted in hardware but kept up-to-date through evolving software.

Microsoft researchers have identified seven properties of highly secure devices, and describe their experiments towards designing microcontroller-based prototype devices adapted from the Mediatek MT7687 MIPS microcontroller.

Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.

The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship (opens in new tab) award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition…

A. J. Brush received the 2017 Alumni Achievement Award (opens in new tab) from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Brush is a human-computer interaction researcher with a…

The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (opens in new tab) honored Jonathan Carlson with an inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award for his leading role in research that leveraged machine learning and the trials network’s data to show…