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Mary Czerwinski has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to human-computer interaction and leadership in the CHI community. Read more >
Deng receives prestigious IEEE Technical Achievement Award
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng, partner research manager in Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. lab, has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep…
In the news | The New York Times
Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries
The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.
Awards | American Mathematical Society
Kristin Lauter elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Kristin Lauter was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community.”
Awards | IEEE
Li Deng receives IEEE Technical Achievement Award
Li Deng received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition. Read more >
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for research that had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of…
In the news | The Guardian
Microsoft has made a computer that can recognise a dog in a bike basket
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft trains machine to answer, ‘What’s that animal in your basket?’
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist (opens in new tab) for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.