Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
A team of researchers at Microsoft have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real…
When most people with normal vision walk down the street, they can easily differentiate the things they must avoid – like trees, curbs and glass doors — from the things they don’t, such as shadows,…
Indrani Medhi Thies received the 2017 Social Impact Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, which recognizes individuals who apply human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs.…
This new collaboration builds on previous efforts between Microsoft and NSF, and the Azure platform has added significant functionality and resources in recent years, including massive investments in open source and advanced data and intelligence…
Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm (opens in new tab) last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”…
The corporate vice president at Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is confident that AI will transform every sector of industry, and even challenge our understanding of…
The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for Simonâs work to advance the development of computer science education in the UK.
For the paper, ‘Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation, ICSE-29, 2007.’
Changing expectations is a Royal Society programme that aims to understand how best to steward research culture through a shifting research landscape. It investigates the evolving relationship between the research community and the wider research…
Gary J. Sullivan received the 2017 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm, for their paper “Video Quality Evaluation…