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Microsoft Research to open Amsterdam lab focused on molecular simulation, led by noted physicist
Microsoft Research will open a new lab in Amsterdam led by Max Welling, a physicist who specializes in molecular simulation, looking to further unlock the potential of machine learning in areas such as climate change and healthcare. The company announced the…
Awards | ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy receive the Test of Time Award for ESEC/FSE 2021
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy received the Test of Time Award for ESEC/FSE 2021 for their 2011 paper, Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality. The Test of Time Award is given annually recognizing highly influential…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Project Alexandria parses documents using unsupervised learning
In 2014, Microsoft launched Project Alexandria, a research effort within its Cambridge research division dedicated to discovering entities — topics of information — and their associated properties. Building on the research lab’s work in knowledge mining research using probabilistic programming,…
Awards | CVPR 2021
Microsoft researchers received the Longuet-Higgins prize
Jamie Shotton, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Toby Sharp, Mark Finocchio, Alex Kipman and Andrew Blake received the Longuet-Higgins prize for their paper, Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images. The annual Longuet-Higgins prize is presented by the IEEE Pattern…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
Designing the New Hybrid Meeting Experience—for Everyone
How teams from across Microsoft worked together to help remote and in-person workers see eye to eye. It began with a couple of folding tables from Costco. In November, Greg Baribault, a product leader for Microsoft Teams, and his colleague…
Career Award | The Royal Society
Abi Sellen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Abigail Sellen is elected as one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world’s leading technology companies, and her seminal…
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they’re taking on the role…
EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
| Tahina Ramananandro, Aseem Rastogi, and Nikhil Swamy
EverParse is a framework for generating provably secure parsers and formatters used to improve the security of critical code bases at Microsoft. EverParse is developed as part of Project Everest, a collaboration between Microsoft Research labs in Redmond, Washington; India;…
Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan
Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…