Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
It’s a new milestone for AI that could genuinely help the visually impaired. Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI.
Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. The breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone…
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Team Gleason is excited to announce Project Insight, the creation of an open dataset of facial imagery of people living with ALS, to help advance innovation in computer…
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But…
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities, but the truth is those AI models are usually built with very little data sourced from those…
Cecily Morrison (opens in new tab), a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help…
Growing up in Newton, Kansas our local newspaper, The Kansan, was the lifeblood of our community. At 3:30 p.m. every afternoon it landed on porches and lawns across the town, and we saw our local…
Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher, Anthropologist and Media Scholar, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, with 20 others in 2020. Mary is investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by…
Sumit Gulwani and Ashish Tiwari are this year’s recipients of the ICSE 2020 Most Influential Paper Award from ICSE 2010 for their paper, Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis (May 2010). The paper won this award because it…
Hospitals have been under a lot of pressure since the outbreak of COVID-19. In order to protect both patients and staff as best they can, and to safeguard the functioning of the hospital, the East…