Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Sound propagation in games is usually modeled with tricks and manual markup work. Gears of War 4 uses Project Triton to perform physical analysis of an entire video game level with its materials to calculate…
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world’s most efficient hard drive.
A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New…
When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing that is behind that instant…
The vision of the so-called internet of things — giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover — has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast.
Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile…
A breakthrough in sound engineering models how sound moves through any environment in Gears of War 4.