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Dhruv “DJ” Jain awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
Dhruv “DJ” Jain (opens in new tab), an intern alumni of the Microsoft Research Ability group, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his dissertation titled “Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and…
Microsoft and NVIDIA introduce parameter-efficient multimodal transformers for video representation learning
| Yale Song
Understanding video is one of the most challenging problems in AI, and an important underlying requirement is learning multimodal representations that capture information about objects, actions, sounds, and their long-range statistical dependencies from audio-visual signals. Recently, transformers have been successful in…
Microsoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
| Michel Pahud, Mike Sinclair, and Andrea Bianchi
Editor’s Note: Bimanual controllers are frequently used to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual reality experiences such as games and simulations. Researchers have typically relied on mechanical linkages between the controllers to recreate the sensation of holding different objects…
Awards | Fast Company
This machine monitors mosquitoes to find—and stop—pandemics before they start
Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.
EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
| Tahina Ramananandro, Aseem Rastogi, and Nikhil Swamy
EverParse (opens in new tab) is a framework for generating provably secure parsers and formatters used to improve the security of critical code bases at Microsoft. EverParse is developed as part of Project Everest (opens in new tab), a collaboration…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
Learning visuomotor policies for autonomous systems from event-based cameras
| Sai Vemprala
Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Sai Vemprala, Senior Researcher, and Ashish Kapoor, Partner Researcher, of Microsoft Research along with Sami Mian (opens in new tab), who was a PhD Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and an intern…
Awards | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch receive USENIX 2021 Test of Time Award
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch received the USENIX Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) at FAST 2021 (opens in new tab). The award recognizes their paper from 2007, A five-year study of file-system metadata, which has…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft Teams could use AI to analyze people’s expressions during video meetings
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive…