Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Diego Jimenez Hernandez and Enrique Seira awarded the prestigious Citabanamex top prize in the research category for their paper “Should the Government Sell You Goods? Evidence from the Milk Market in Mexico”.
To mark the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Research, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, co-moderates a series of panel discussions on the “Generations of Inspirational and Impactful Research”. The panelists, comprised of current and past Microsoft…
Learn how the Watch For platform leverages deep-learning, computer vision, and high efficiency AI infrastructure to identify interesting moments in video content. Presented by Weishung Liu, Senior Program Manager, from Microsoft Research, Redmond.
The system could help physicians select the least risky treatments in urgent situations, such as treating sepsis.
Kenji Takeda won either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Executive Challenge. The Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.
Two new books about technology and the fate of democracy begin by describing the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. They are right to see that fateful day as a turning point…
Recent progress in natural language understanding (NLU) has been driven in part by the availability of large-scale benchmarks that provide an environment for researchers to test and measure the performance of AI models. Most of…
Xing Xie was announced as IEEE Computer Society 2022 Fellow for contributions to spatial data mining and recommendation systems.
The Infosys Prize 2021 in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Dr. Neeraj Kayal of Microsoft Research lab, Bengaluru, for his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity. His extensive, innovative work on algebraic computation includes the development…
The Super Computing 2021 organizers selected Deepak Narayanan and Amar Phanishayee’s paper, Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM, as the best student paper for its quality and potential impact.