Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Join us for a fireside chat featuring Juan Lavista Ferres, VP, Chief Data Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Lab, and Carrie Stokes, USAID’s Chief Geographer and Director of the GeoCenter…
The ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying…
Amid economic uncertainty and the transition to flexible work, leaders are under pressure to increase productivity in flexible work and do more with less. At the same time, next-generation AI is changing the game for how organizations gain…
Today, Microsoft is expanding our Cybersecurity Skills Initiative (opens in new tab) to Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Spain, and delivering grants to nonprofits to help skill people for the cybersecurity workforce. With this expansion, we are now…
Back in 2018, Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall asked the audience during his TED talk (opens in new tab): what if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the…
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Kalai’s contributions have helped…
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under the heading: “nature-based tourism.”
Microsoft’s head of research and his colleagues believe chatbots will be used by medical professionals, as well as by patients, with increasing frequency. Peter Lee could use some rest. Microsoft’s head of research has been…
Lorin Crawford is one of eight awardees of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Award. For path-breaking research combining theory and methods of mathematics, statistics and computing to generate new knowledge and insight about the genetic…