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In the news | Softpedia News
Microsoft Develops Tech That Uses a Smartphone to Prevent Driver Distraction
Microsoft Research has developed a new technology that uses a smartphone to detect and warn of factors that could increase the risk of accidents, such as speeding, drunk driving, or distractions.
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…
In the news | ACM
Padmanabhan elected Fellow of the ACM
The 2016 Fellows have been cited for numerous contributions in areas including cloud computing, computer security, data science, Internet routing and security, large-scale distributed computing, mobile computing, spoken-language processing and theoretical computer science.
In the news | The Windows Club
Microsoft moves a step towards a fully functional road safety AI in India
With an estimated 1.25 million fatalities each year, road accidents are definitely right up there when it comes to the top causes of deaths in the world. It is particularly important to know, middle-income and low-income countries bear a disproportionate…
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…
Awards | MacArthur Foundation
Bill Thies named 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Bill Thies was named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his work creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world. He is a…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Mind meld, Microsoft Research style
In a two-day summit in February that was as much mind meld as conference, 45 PhD candidates from the top computer science departments in the United States met with a group of Microsoft researchers and engineers for the Student Summit…
In the news | SIGMOBILE
ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2016
RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing interest in exploiting wireless infrastructure…