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In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft’s ‘Biological Computing’ Lab Aims To Fight Diseases By Reprogramming Cells
Microsoft says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers that could someday be programmed—and even reprogrammed—to treat diseases like cancer.
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer
Although individual projects vary widely, Microsoft’s overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches: one is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems, and the other is more data-driven.
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis win the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis have won the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (opens in new tab), which recognizes the impact of a paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 10 years earlier. The paper, “Simple…
Awards | ACM
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry receive UbiComp 2016’s 10-year Impact Award
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award (opens in new tab) for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper presents a wearable camera, SenseCam, that…
PhD Summer School brings top students to Cambridge
By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Pivoting from the Old World charm of High Tea to contemplating a dystopian AI-dominated future was among the many experiences facing more than 80 doctoral students at the PhD Summer School, held July 4–8…
Awards | Computer-Aided Verification (CAV)
Samin Ishtiaq receives the 2016 CAV Award
Samin Ishtiaq will be receiving the 2016 CAV Award (opens in new tab) for the development of Separation Logic and for demonstrating its applicability in the automated verification of programs that mutate data structures. He is winning this award alongside…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft’s Project Malmo, now open sourced, uses Minecraft for AI research
Artificial intelligence (AI) developers now have a new, curious tool to test their system, as Microsoft announces the release of its open source Project Malmo – previously only in private preview – which uses the world-building game Minecraft for AI research.
In the news | BBC News
AI experiments roam Minecraft’s lands
Minecraft has gained a tool that lets artificial intelligence experiments be carried out in its virtual worlds.
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft will now let anyone test their AI creations in Minecraft
Microsoft has announced a public release for Project Malmo, the company’s system for testing AI software in Minecraft—and for the first time, anyone can join in.