Research
Lolan Song welcomes participants to the Asia Faculty Summit with an overview of the program. During the summit—which was organized in partnership with Nankai University and Tianjin University—leading academic researchers, educators, and Microsoft researchers will…
Rick Rashid, chief research officer of Microsoft Research, delivered the opening remarks at Asia Faculty Summit 2012. Held in Tianjin, China, the event was organized by Microsoft Research Asia in partnership with Nankai University and…
Since its founding in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has expanded its areas of research by recruiting great people and creating a culture in which they can thrive and by working closely with professors and students…
Representations of probability and utility lay at the heart of a two-decade rolling revolution in machine learning and intelligence. A confluence of advances has led to an inflection in our ability to collect, store, and…
Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability. Computational thinking involves solving problems, designing systems,…
In the Human Computer Interaction group at Microsoft Research Asia, we are conducting cutting-edge research on new interaction technologies and paradigms for the next generation of natural user interfaces, using a wide range of sensors…
Tony Hey, vice president of Microsoft Research Connections, delivers the closing remarks at the Asia Faculty Summit 2012, held in Tianjin, China. Beginning with an overview of how Microsoft Research Connections works with the worldwide…
One of the most exciting aspects of computer science is that the results of basic research so often end up being applied in completely unexpected ways. At Microsoft Research, we actively seek out these surprising…
How can I trust the information I read over the Internet? We argue that a general theory of trust in networks of humans and computers must be built on both a theory of behavioral trust…
Limits in computing power and our ability to interact with computers have also imposed limits on our understanding of the world around us. Increasingly, those limits are being removed, clearing the way for new advances…
