Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft Research has released CHESS, an automated tool for finding errors — data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations — in multithreaded software by systematically exploring thread schedules. Once CHESS locates an error, it…
Microsoft’s CHESS, a two-year-in-the-making tool from Microsoft Research designed to help developers test for concurrency errors, is set to make its public debut in two weeks. Microsoft researchers developed CHESS to help developers improve the…
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2008 to the Joint Video Team (JVT), an engineering experts’ group led by its chairman Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft, for…
At least once each year I trek on over to visit my colleagues at Microsoft Research. It’s actually not much of a trek. The group’s headquarters are really just a few blocks from my own…
Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie on Thursday demonstrated a software-based robot that uses a combination of visual and voice recognition as well as speech synthesis to handle basic tasks.
A novel way of interacting with computers and other gadgets could make twiddling your thumbs a productive activity. Microsoft researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle…
Gary J. Sullivan received the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award in 2008 “In recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of the H.264/AVC video coding standard”. This award had previously been…
For contributions to architecture, protocols, and performance of wireless networks.
In 2006, the International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), the United Nations Organization for standardization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), conducted a poll in commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of the ITU-T…
Gary J. Sullivan was named a Fellow of the IEEE by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2006 “For contributions to video coding and its standardization.”