Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
It’s been 50 years since Sir Anthony Hoare studied Latin and Greek as a schoolboy, but he still remembers the difficulty of mastering each tongue’s complicated grammar rules. As hard as he tried, he couldn’t…
Professor Tony Hoare, a member of Microsoft Research’s lab in Cambridge UK, has been awarded this year’s Kyoto Prize by Japan’s Inamori Foundation for his pioneering and fundamental work in software science. One of the…
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.
For contributions to the theory and practice of lapped transforms, fast multirate filter banks, and signal coding.
For the significant contribution over the many years that Bill has made to the field of human-computer interaction. Bill has demonstrated that he is a leader, a creative researcher and an excellent communicator who inspires…
Henrique S. Malvar and David H. Staelin were awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in Image (Video) and Multidimensional Signal Processing for the paper entitled, The LOT: Transform Coding Without Blocking Effects,…
Eric Horvitz receives the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for his contributions to artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction spanning the computing and decision sciences through developing principles and models of sensing, reflection, and rational action.
