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An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.

An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to…

Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.

Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech.

Microsoft researchers are using Project Malmo for their own research, and they have made it available to a small group of academic researchers under a private beta.

RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing…

From daily scrum meetings to six-week dedicated customer engagement exercises, the team is always engaged in making their own process better.

Wolfram Schulte received the IEEE Computer Society 2016 Harlan D. Mills Award (opens in new tab) for research and research leadership contributions that have led to major theoretical and practical advances in software verification. Read more…

Yong Rui received the IEEE Computer Society’s 2016 Technical Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for his pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval. Read more >

Microsoft researchers, in partnership with academia, have published a paper detailing how they have dramatically increased the speed of homomorphic encryption systems.