News and Awards

Awarded “in recognition of row hammer mitigation and standardization support in JC-42”.

Junaid Bajwa, Chief Medical Scientist, Health Futures team, made the Intelligent Health community’s top 55 Innovators 2022 list.

Microsoft is sunsetting an experimental research project that uses audio-based technology to help visually-impaired people navigate and gain a stronger awareness of their surroundings. However, the company also revealed that it will release the code…

Not all the interventions are so simple. In the radiotherapy department, oncologist Dr Raj Jena explained that when a patient comes in for curative radiotherapy it can take up to two hours to mark up…

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality…

Long-term data storage enters a new epoch. What will remain of the human race? We don’t know how long our species will survive, and even if we can hold on for thousands more tears it…

This badge denotes that the recipient was on a winning team recognized by an Executive Challenge team in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022. Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.…

Desney Tan, along with fellow authors, Adiyan Mujibiya, Xiang Cao, Dan Morris, Shwetak N. Patel, Jun Rekimoto, received the 10-Year Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS 2022)…

Microsoft’s leading researcher in the application of technologies in the field, Ranveer Chandra, tells how the company works to help create the future of agriculture.