Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The healthcare sector gets a hand from Microsoft, who will release a new encryption algorithm which will allow developers to handle genomic data in encrypted format, without the need of decryption, and by doing so,…
As genome research – and the genomes themselves – get passed around the scientific community, the world’s woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published…
Microsoft released a ‘manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,’ which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
Previous reports have pointed the finger at the healthcare sector as being woefully unprepared for the modern age of Internet-enabled devices that are always online and present a constant danger to the patient, hospital, and…
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have…
Eric Horvitz was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Sustained Accomplishment Award (opens in new tab) for his long-standing contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and demonstrated vision…
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award (opens in new tab) for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction)…
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…