Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond

October 1, 2016

September 21, 2016

Josh Benaloh received the 2016 Pioneer Award (opens in new tab) in August 2016 from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for his contribution to the “Keys Under Doormats (opens in new tab)” report. The publication argues against requests from Congress and law enforcement…

September 19, 2016

There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there’s too much to read…

September 17, 2016

A new project aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.

September 12, 2016

Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and natural language processes. Nature has…

August 31, 2016

Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.

August 15, 2016

Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.

August 3, 2016

Mary shares some great experiences about her role as a manager and how she plays this out practically in enabling and protecting people, and establishing a culture in a group. She also talks about some of the key insights…