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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.
In the news | BBC News
AI experiments roam Minecraft’s lands
Minecraft has gained a tool that lets artificial intelligence experiments be carried out in its virtual worlds.
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft will now let anyone test their AI creations in Minecraft
Microsoft has announced a public release for Project Malmo, the company’s system for testing AI software in Minecraft—and for the first time, anyone can join in.
In the news | Forbes
Future Tech: Seventeen Microsoft Researchers On The Technology of 2017 And 2027
The researcher’s ideas about future technology in 2017 and 2027 make for interesting reading and the world will be a better and more interesting place if half of what they envision comes to pass.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Project Malmo, which lets researchers use Minecraft for AI research, makes public debut
Microsoft has made Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research, available for novice to experienced programmers on GitHub via an open-source license.
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones receives 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Simon Peyton Jones received the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award for his leading role over the past 30 years in the design, implementation and evolution of Haskell and the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). Haskell is an advanced, purely functional programming language used by…