Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers that could someday be programmed—and even reprogrammed—to treat diseases like cancer.
There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is…
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis have won the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (opens in new tab), which recognizes the impact of a paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 10…
A new project aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.
Sebastian Nowozin received the 2016 German Pattern Recognition Award (opens in new tab) on September 13 at the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (opens in new tab) for his development of machine learning models and algorithms suitable for…
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper…
Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and…
Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system. Director of the Polling Institute…
Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.