Ryen W. White
General Manager and Deputy Lab Director
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Learning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web)
| Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, and Longqi Yang
Microsoft researchers are taking a comprehensive and dynamic approach to help Copilot (web) continuously learn from interaction and feedback, improving the AI system and making it increasingly useful for consumers. Learn more.
Career Award | ACM SIGCHI
Ryen White selected for ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2024
White is recognized for his significant and sustained contributions to human-computer interaction. He and his many collaborators have advanced our understanding of people’s interactions with information and developed innovative solutions that have improved search systems and helped address societal challenges.
Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography
| Manuel Costa, Weidong Cui, Karen Easterbrook, Paul England, Hamed Khanpour, Kim Laine, Kapil Vaswani, Mike Walker, and Ryen W. White
Trust is essential for people and organizations to use technology with confidence. At Microsoft, we strive to earn the trust of our customers, employees, communities, and partners by committing to privacy, security, the responsible use of AI, and transparency. At…
Awards | ACM
Four Microsoft researchers named as 2021 ACM Fellows
Four Microsoft researchers were among those honored for 2021: Nikolaj Bjorner, Tie-Yan Liu, Ryen White, and Tom Zimmermann. ACM Fellows includes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to…
In the news | TheNextWeb
Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…
SIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
| Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, and Andrey Kolobov
Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…
Democratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces
| Ahmed Awadallah and Ryen W. White
Benefiting from a confluence of factors, such as service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), application program interfaces – APIs – are playing an increasingly important role in both the virtual and the physical world. For example, web services, such…