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Awards | User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Meredith Ringel Morris receives UIST 2018 Lasting Impact Award
Meredith (Merrie) Ringel Morris, a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, received the UIST 2018 Lasting Impact Award (opens in new tab) for her 2007 paper, co-authored by Eric Horvitz, entitled: “SearchTogether: An interface for collaborative web search.” The award was presented…
In the news | GeekWire
How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic
Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people, the daily journey is more than just a commute: It is part of a years-long project to create a completely…
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Water Music: Navigating toward increased independence through Soundscape
Imagine you’re paddling on the lake, you feel the warm sun on your face, listen quietly to the calm ripples of the water. You can hear a sound beacon, in 3D, on the water, just in front of you and…
The future is fusion with Asta Roseway
Episode 44, October 3, 2018 – Asta Roseway gives an inside look at one of the most unconventional labs at Microsoft Research. Located at the intersection of science, technology and art, it’s a lab that insists that technology, like art,…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Skip the hold music and meet Premera Scout, a chatbot that helps you with health care
The Health Bot service empowers health care organizations to build intelligent and compliant virtual health assistants and chatbots that improve processes, outcomes and self-service options, and reduce costs
In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft Azure gets new tools for edge computing and machine learning
The new features include tools to automate the process of building a machine learning model, by helping to identify the most efficient algorithms to make a prediction and optimize the performance of the trained model.
In the news | QE Prize
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Microsoft researchers have been working for more than seven years on Homomorphic Encryption, demonstrating practical applications for cloud privacy and security, and publicly released the SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) in 2015.
In the news | Cnet
Microsoft searches for new ideas in its summer hackathon
Microsoft researcher Asta Roseway and Project Smart Tatoo are featured in this CNET video report.
Faculty Summit 2018 – Advancing the future shape of systems toward a global AI supercomputer
The 19th Microsoft Research Faculty Summit yet again demonstrated its unique place in the world of computer science in gathering thought leaders, state-of-the-art ideas, new products and a sense of the possible under one roof as industry and leading academic…