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Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy
Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC).
Awards | ICCV
Antonio Criminisi awarded Marr Prize
Antonio Criminisi along with Peter Kontschieder, Madalina Fiterau, and Samuel Rota Bulo were awarded the Marr Prize at ICCV 2015 for their award-winning paper, Deep Neural Decision Forests. Their research showed that by using a technique called random forests researchers could create a…
Microsoft researcher Jamie Shotton receives MIT Tech Review young innovator honor
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Jamie Shotton was just starting his career in computer vision at Microsoft Research Cambridge when some colleagues from the company’s Redmond offices came to the U.K. lab with a challenge. They were creating…
Awards | MIT Technology Review
Jamie Shotton named to MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35
Jamie Shotton was named as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 for young innovators whose inventions and research are deemed most exciting by the editors of Technology Review.
2015 Summer School inspires top PhD students
The first week of July didn’t just see the arrival of extraordinarily high temperatures across Europe—it also brought extraordinarily high energy to Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, as 81 top PhD students gathered for the tenth annual Microsoft Research Cambridge PhD…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Luca Cardelli receives ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Luca Cardelli received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award for significant and lasting contributions to the field of programming languages. Read more >
Awards | UK Academy of Engineering
Don Syme honored with Silver Medal from UK Academy of Engineering
Don Syme named one of three winners of the prestigious UK Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2015 for an outstanding personal contribution to engineering by an early to mid-career engineer resulting in market exploitation. Read more >
Microsoft researcher Don Syme honored with Silver Medal from Royal Academy of Engineering
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Many programmers recognize Don Syme’s name, but even more are influenced daily by his research and development. After all, Syme, a principal researcher in Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K., lab, has helped to develop and influence features…
Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs
Microsoft researcher Jasmin Fisher credits multidisciplinary approach By Microsoft Research and the University of Cambridge Editor’s note: This press release is reprinted with the permission of the University of Cambridge, and is followed by a Q&A with Dr. Jasmin Fisher,…