Microsoft Research Lab – New England
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In the news | ACM
ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2014)
For contributions to algorithms and interfaces for interactive information retrieval.
Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s…
In the news | NAE
Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 2011
For innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information.
In the news | SIGIR
ACM SIGIR Salton Award (lifetime achievement), 2009
For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.
Innovation Inquiries: The Birth of a Research Lab
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Since Microsoft Research New England was announced on Feb. 4, Jennifer Chayes, managing director of the lab, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been hard at work along with her deputy managing director, Christian…
In the news | ACM
Elected ACM Fellow, 2006
For research contributions to information retrieval and human-computer interaction.
In the news | SIGIR
SIGIR Test of Time Awards
For the 1998 paper, Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure.
In the news | Forbes
Spam killers
Researchers working at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. headquarters have come up with intriguing ways to turn the computational power of a PC against the crap that people seek to put into it.