Microsoft ElectionGuard—enabling voters to verify that their votes are correctly counted
Microsoft ElectionGuard provides a free, open-source software toolkit, which can be used in new and existing election systems to allow voters to verify that their votes have been accurately counted. Voters can check for themselves…
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship 2020: Researchers in academia at the forefront of technology
The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising new faculty, whose exceptional talent for research and innovation identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. This year, 185 individuals were nominated. Microsoft Research is…
Microsoft ElectionGuard—enabling voters to verify that their votes are correctly counted webinar
In this webinar with Dr. Josh Benaloh, Senior Principal Cryptographer at Microsoft Research, learn how the ElectionGuard technology works and how anyone can write an independent verifier that processes all of the artifacts produced by…
How research can enable more effective remote work
Due to recent events, millions of office workers have needed to rapidly adjust to working from home—learning new collaboration tools and best practices, re-thinking how to stay connected with colleagues outside the office, and adapting…
Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein
Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually interesting in academic circles. But that didn’t deter Dr. Philip Bernstein, now a Distinguished…