Research
Studying how people, societies, and technology shape one another to create more equitable and effective computing experiences.
We live in interesting times. Seers predict Utopian or Dystopian futures where Algorithms and data will be the gods that rule our destiny and that of the planet. These new gods have taken time arriving.…
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…
Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the loss of electrical power, control, and instrumentation at…
