News and Awards

Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute of Science and Microsoft Research, was honored with the prestigious New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for the creation of the stochastic localization method, that has led to significant progress in several…

Today, the futures of both democracy and the internet lie at crossroads. These futures are intertwined in complex and critical ways, with each threatened from within, and by one another. While debates over the extent…

Microsoft Corp., Planet Labs PBC and The Nature Conservancy on Thursday announced its plans to launch the Global Renewables Watch (GRW), a first-of-its-kind living atlas intended to map and measure all utility-scale solar and wind…

The internet is among the most complex systems ever built, with a sprawling digital infrastructure of millions of interconnected devices and networks that, together, enable us to connect and communicate with one another around the…

Instead of time-consuming human surveys, these living maps are made by AI and satellites to help planners get things done.

In the race to curb climate change, solar panels and wind turbines are being installed across the planet — but no one knows exactly where and how much renewable power is out there. So Microsoft…

GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), in an innovative collaboration with the Centre for Health and Disease Studies (CHDS) Nepal, today announced the start of a disease surveillance project in Nepal. The pilot…

Microsoft’s Gary J. Sullivan was recognized as a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (opens in new tab) (SMPTE) among the 12 notable members who received this award in 2022. According…

The platform that hosts many of the world’s NFT and cryptocurrency trades just completed one of the trickiest upgrades in modern technology. Now come the really big goals. Earlier this week, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin…