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HoloLens future highlights wide ranging vision research at ECCV
By Marc Pollefeys, Partner Director of Science, HoloLens and Jamie Shotton, Partner Scientist Lead, HoloLens We are pleased to announce Microsoft’s Platinum sponsorship of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Amsterdam from October 8-16. ECCV is one of…
In the news | BBC News
New scan aims to aid tumour detection
Microsoft Research says it is close to perfecting software that can measure tumours accurately in 3D from normal Computerised Tomography (CT) scans. The job of determining the extent of tumours is currently done by hand with limited accuracy. The “Inner…
In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft’s ‘Biological Computing’ Lab Aims To Fight Diseases By Reprogramming Cells
Microsoft says its eventual goal is to make cells into living computers that could someday be programmed—and even reprogrammed—to treat diseases like cancer.
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer
Although individual projects vary widely, Microsoft’s overarching philosophy toward solving cancer focuses on two basic approaches: one is rooted in the idea that cancer and other biological processes are information processing systems, and the other is more data-driven.
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis win the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis have won the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award, which recognizes the impact of a paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 10 years earlier. The paper, “Simple unification-based type inference for…
Awards | ACM
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry receive UbiComp 2016’s 10-year Impact Award
Steve Hodges, Gavin Smyth, and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK, received the UbiComp 2016 10-year Impact Award for the paper “SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.” The paper presents a wearable camera, SenseCam, that takes photos automatically, capturing…
PhD Summer School brings top students to Cambridge
By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Pivoting from the Old World charm of High Tea to contemplating a dystopian AI-dominated future was among the many experiences facing more than 80 doctoral students at the PhD Summer School, held July 4–8…
Awards | Computer-Aided Verification (CAV)
Samin Ishtiaq receives the 2016 CAV Award
Samin Ishtiaq will be receiving the 2016 CAV Award for the development of Separation Logic and for demonstrating its applicability in the automated verification of programs that mutate data structures. He is winning this award alongside Josh Berdine, a former…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft’s Project Malmo, now open sourced, uses Minecraft for AI research
Artificial intelligence (AI) developers now have a new, curious tool to test their system, as Microsoft announces the release of its open source Project Malmo – previously only in private preview – which uses the world-building game Minecraft for AI research.