Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
No one single technology exists in a vacuum. Microsoft’s Kinect may have suffered an ignoble slide into obscurity following its troubled pairing with the Xbox One. But its underlying principles, technology and the research that…
Project Catapult, a longtime research initiative on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), received the ‘Innovation of the year’ award during the ceremony held at the Museum of Pop Culture.
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on…
Technology news website GeekWire named Microsoft’s Project Catapult the Innovation of the Year (opens in new tab) at its 2017 GeekWire Awards ceremony. The initiative “puts the company at the forefront of field programmable gate arrays, of…
Chris Bishop, a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (opens in new tab), the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society (opens in new tab) was…
Eric Horvitz was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (opens in new tab) for making significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. The field of medical informatics harnesses data gathered…
The result of a collaboration between the artist, Keith Salmon, and Microsoftâs experimental technology centre, The Oregon Project is a new stage in creating truly accessible art.
Microsoft Corp. is buying into Canada’s artificial intelligence research community with a deal to purchase Maluuba, a deep-learning and AI-technology startup based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal.
Xbox researcher Jessie Thomas participates in a panel discussion at the Univeristy of Notre Dame on unconscious assumptions that influence judgment and perception of others, and how to deal with them in an assertive, effective,…
A new Microsoft Research team, Project Sopris, is looking to redesign microcontrollers in the name of making low-cost IoT devices more secure.