News and Awards

Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández along with Elena Agapie received the Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2015) Best Paper Award for work on Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds…

By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable…

Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.

A new Microsoft Research project could result in a laptop battery that lasts a lot longer.

Microsoft researchers, working with colleagues from academia, have come up with a system that uses multiple kinds of existing batteries, working in tandem with smarter software, to keep laptops and tablets charged much longer than…

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. We believe that patients’ perceptions of value are what really matter and that insurers and society derive more value when patients are served…

Zuzana Kukelova (opens in new tab) received the 2015 Cor Baayen Award (opens in new tab) – an annual award given to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics by ERCIM –…

Microsoft Research distinguished scientist Victor Bahl has been spreading the word about Micro Datacenters, also known by the adorable name cloudlets, as a key concept for optimizing the performance and usefulness of mobile and other…

Many cities are packed with cameras pointlessly recording everything they see, but smart algorithms could allow them to keep only footage that matters.

Bing will scan whatever is currently on your screen for information and then display snippets of relevant results.