Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
In January this year, Microsoft made a major announcement: it had paid for the removal of 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among its purchases were projects to expand forests in Peru,…
Facebook faced a great deal of criticism in September, following revelations published in the Wall Street Journal. One example was that Facebook had begun a program, called XCheck, to route public figures away from their…
Creating a programmable software infrastructure for telecommunication operations promises to reduce both the capital expenditure (CAPEX) and the operational expenses (OPEX) of the 5G telecommunications operators. What is exciting to many of us who work…
In the world of consumerism, we often think that cost and quality are related: You get what you pay for. However, that’s not necessarily the case, as Jim Weinstein, MD, discovered during the Dartmouth Atlas…
Picture this: You are a researcher in the Molecular Information Systems Lab housed at the Paul G. Allen School. You and your labmates have developed a system for storing and retrieving digital images in synthetic…
When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar…
FLAML is a lightweight Python library from Microsoft Research that finds accurate machine learning models in an efficient and economical way using cutting edge algorithms designed to be resource-efficient and easily parallelizable. FLAML can also…
OctoML engineering collaborated with Microsoft Research on the “Watch For” project, an AI system for analyzing live video streams and identifying specified events within the streams. The collaboration sped up inference for the deep learning…
