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2017 Swiss Joint Research Center kick off By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Recently, we celebrated an important milestone for our Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC). We welcomed top researchers from all partners to a workshop at the…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
With this workshop, the Swiss JRC kicked off 10 projects, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft. These projects were chosen from 20 proposals assessed by the Swiss JRC steering committee for their intellectual merit,…
2017 Microsoft Research PhD scholarships support break-through projects in six countries
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has supported groundbreaking PhD projects. This year we have 17 projects that span six countries, and include research…
In the news | The BCS
Simon was awarded Distinguished Fellowship in 2017
The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for Simonâs work to advance the development of computer science education in the UK.
Stack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The organization also named five Microsoft researchers to…
Awards | ACM
ACM names eight Microsoft researchers 2016 Fellows
Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range…
Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference
By Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab This month, I will attend the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the premier gathering in the machine learning field. I’ve participated in this conference…
Sriram Rajamani squashed bugs on road to leadership role in Microsoft’s India research lab
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research After a handful of years writing code for the telecommunications and design automation industries, computer bugs got the best of Sriram Rajamani. He witnessed firsthand how poorly constructed code caused programs to crash and…
Career Award | ACM SIGOPS
Ant Rowstron receives the 2016 Mark Weiser Award
Ant Rowstron received the 2016 Mark Weiser Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). The annual award, notes SIGOPS, honors an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research with “contributions…