Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Hanna Wallach was honored with the Borg Early Career Award (opens in new tab) from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). For a woman in computer science and/or engineering who…
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award.
Yuval Peres (opens in new tab) elected as Foreign Associate and Robert Schapire elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (opens in new tab) for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.…
Aaron Sidford awarded ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (opens in new tab) for his dissertation, “Iterative Methods, Combinatorial Optimization, and Linear Programming Beyond the Universal Barrier (opens in new tab),” which provides the first…
Simon Peyton Jones (opens in new tab) elected Fellow of the Royal Society (opens in new tab) for his pioneering work on functional programming languages and as lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and for…
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile…
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane…
New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made…
IT’S ALMOST A given that you’ll ride in an autonomous car at some point in your life, and when you do, the AI controlling it just might have honed its skills playing Minecraft.
Gears of War 4 will be the first game in the world to use Triton, a sound technology that accurately maps sound in 3D spaces.