Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Cynthia Dwork has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her significant contributions to the science of database privacy, cryptography, and distributed computing. Read more >
Mary Czerwinski has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to human-computer interaction and leadership in the CHI community. Read more >
The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.
Kristin Lauter was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community.”
Li Deng received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition. Read more >
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for research that had long-lasting influence, including…
Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we’re familiar with in the U.S.: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Facebook’s M, Google Now, and Microsoft’s own Cortana.
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.