Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Every year for the foreseeable future, Microsoft expects to build 50-100 new data centers to keep up with customer demand. That’s a challenge for a company that has a goal to soon be carbon negative—meaning…
Microsoft has grabbed headlines with its “moonshot” research projects in data center technology, including storing cloud data in DNA and holograms and an undersea data module. This week Microsoft unveiled a new research project that…
Daniel Berger’s paper, Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash, was selected as a best paper by the SOSP’21 organizers for its quality and potential impact.
Today, we are announcing a new set of resource metrics available in Azure Machine Learning to help customers understand the computational and energetic costs of their AI workloads across the machine learning lifecycle. Azure Machine…
EPFL and Microsoft Research scientists demonstrated ultrafast optical circuit switching using a chip-based soliton comb laser and a completely passive diffraction grating device. This particular architecture could enable an energy-efficient optical datacenter to meet enormous…
Armed with Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action grant, SEEDS is using AI to save lives during disasters.
We’re entering a technological era that is all about “me”—from personalized shopping recommendations to avatars, and even bespoke healthcare treatments. Deeper inspection of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, however, reveals that “me” is not really me.…
Discover how we developed Super Phoenix, a series of AI algorithmic breakthroughs, to navigate the uncertain nature of Mahjong. Presented by Junjie Li, Senior Research SDE at Microsoft Research Asia.
Trips to the hospital happen. And while everyone in the industry strives to deliver world-class care for in-patient experiences, everyone—patients and care teams alike, would prefer to avoid those stays at the hospital. The teams…
For many, the intersection of 5G wireless and the Internet offers very little by way of new information, just from a quick, surface-level glance. However, things look very different when considered in light of the…