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October 2026

1. 30 OctFrom synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
2. 29 OctMicrosoft Research Focus – Edition #97
3. 22 OctFlint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations
4. 21 OctSolving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture
5. 20 OctCalled to serve: Tech, research, and positive impact
6. 15 OctProof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar
7. 12 OctSimulating student learning for better AI tutoring
8. 7 OctAgent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
9. 6 OctWhat AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

September 2026

1. 30 SepForecasting space weather risks on power grids
2. 29 SepIntroducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology
3. 28 SepOne year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
4. 23 SepOffloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
5. 21 SepImproving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera

August 2026

1. 31 AugGigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
2. 20 AugBroadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
3. 12 AugMindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
4. 11 AugIntroducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
5. 3 AugOrchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

July 2026

1. 30 JulEchoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
2. 30 JulEvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
3. 13 JulVerifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
4. 9 JulAurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications
5. 8 JulFlint: A visualization language for the AI era

June 2026

1. 30 JunSkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters
2. 29 JunMemora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity
3. 25 JunUnderstanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments
4. 24 JunTalos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis
5. 12 JunIre identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

May 2026

1. 28 MayData Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data
2. 27 MayExtending Human Intelligence Through AI
3. 21 MayMagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models
4. 21 MayVega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI
5. 15 MayFurther Notes on Our Recent Research on AI Delegation and Long-Horizon Reliability
6. 13 Maymimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
7. 13 MayGridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid
8. 12 MayAdvancing AI for materials with MatterSim: experimental synthesis, faster simulation, and multi-task models
9. 11 MaySocialReasoning-Bench: Measuring whether AI agents act in users’ best interests
10. 8 MayBuilding realistic electric transmission grid dataset at scale: a pipeline from open dataset
11. 5 MayMicrosoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in large-scale networked systems

April 2026

1. 30 AprRed-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale
2. 22 AprAutoAdapt: Automated domain adaptation for large language models
3. 20 AprCan we AI our way to a more sustainable world?
4. 9 AprNew Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
5. 9 AprIdeas: Steering AI toward the work future we want
6. 1 AprADeLe: Predicting and explaining AI performance across tasks

March 2026

1. 26 MarAsgardBench: A benchmark for visually grounded interactive planning
2. 26 MarGroundedPlanBench: Spatially grounded long-horizon task planning for robot manipulation
3. 23 MarWill machines ever be intelligent?
4. 12 MarSystematic debugging for AI agents: Introducing the AgentRx framework
5. 10 MarPlugMem: Transforming raw agent interactions into reusable knowledge
6. 4 MarPhi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model
7. 3 MarTrailer: The Shape of Things to Come

February 2026

1. 26 FebCORPGEN advances AI agents for real work
2. 19 FebMedia Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions
3. 18 FebProject Silica’s advances in glass storage technology
4. 5 FebRethinking imitation learning with Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models
5. 5 FebPaza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

January 2026

1. 27 JanUniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning
2. 20 JanArgos: Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents
3. 15 JanOptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise

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December 2025

1. 11 DecAgent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites
2. 10 DecPromptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls
3. 9 DecGigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using virtual population generated by multimodal AI
4. 1 DecIdeas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI

November 2025

1. 25 NovReducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity
2. 24 NovFara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use
3. 12 NovMMCTAgent: Enabling multimodal reasoning over large video and image collections
4. 11 NovBlueCodeAgent: A blue teaming agent enabled by automated red teaming for CodeGen AI
5. 6 NovWhen industry knowledge meets PIKE-RAG: The innovation behind Signify’s customer service boost
6. 5 NovMagentic Marketplace: an open-source simulation environment for studying agentic markets
7. 4 NovRedCodeAgent: Automatic red-teaming agent against diverse code agents

October 2025

1. 21 OctTell me when: Building agents that can wait, monitor, and act
2. 6 OctIdeas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project
3. 6 OctWhen AI Meets Biology: Promise, Risk, and Responsibility

September 2025

1. 22 SepUsing AI to assist in rare disease diagnosis
2. 11 SepTool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at scale
3. 10 SepRenderFormer: How neural networks are reshaping 3D rendering
4. 9 SepBreaking the networking wall in AI infrastructure

August 2025

1. 26 AugCrescent library brings privacy to digital identity systems
2. 21 AugApplicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations
3. 21 AugCoauthor roundtable: Reflecting on healthcare economics, biomedical research, and medical education
4. 20 AugMindJourney enables AI to explore simulated 3D worlds to improve spatial interpretation
5. 12 AugDion: the distributed orthonormal update revolution is here
6. 7 AugReimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI
7. 6 AugSelf-adaptive reasoning for science
8. 5 AugProject Ire autonomously identifies malware at scale
9. 5 AugVeriTrail: Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance in multi-step AI workflows

July 2025

1. 24 JulNavigating medical education in the era of generative AI
2. 24 JulXinxing Xu bridges AI research and real-world impact at Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore
3. 23 JulTechnical approach for classifying human-AI interactions at scale
4. 21 JulAI Testing and Evaluation: Reflections
5. 15 JulCollabLLM: Teaching LLMs to collaborate with users
6. 14 JulAI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from cybersecurity
7. 10 JulHow AI will accelerate biomedical research and discovery
8. 7 JulAI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from pharmaceuticals and medical devices

June 2025

1. 30 JunAI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing
2. 26 JunPadChest-GR: A bilingual grounded radiology reporting benchmark for chest X-rays
3. 23 JunAI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from Science and Industry
4. 23 JunLearning from other domains to advance AI evaluation and testing
5. 18 JunBreaking bonds, breaking ground: Advancing the accuracy of computational chemistry with deep learning
6. 17 JunNew methods boost reasoning in small and large language models
7. 12 JunHow AI is reshaping the future of healthcare and medical research
8. 10 JunRewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library
9. 5 JunBenchmarkQED: Automated benchmarking of RAG systems

May 2025

1. 29 MayWhat AI’s impact on individuals means for the health workforce and industry
2. 27 MayFrodoKEM: A conservative quantum-safe cryptographic algorithm
3. 22 MayAbstracts: Zero-shot models in single-cell biology with Alex Lu
4. 21 MayAbstracts: Aurora with Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma
5. 20 MayCollaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact
6. 19 MayMagentic-UI, an experimental human-centered web agent
7. 15 MayCoauthor roundtable: Reflecting on real world of doctors, developers, patients, and policymakers
8. 12 MayPredicting and explaining AI model performance: A new approach to evaluation
9. 8 MayAbstracts: Heat Transfer and Deep Learning with Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv
10. 7 MayResearch Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
11. 7 MayMicrosoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research
12. 5 MayAbstracts: Societal AI with Xing Xie
13. 5 MaySocietal AI: Building human-centered AI systems
14. 1 MayLaws, norms, and ethics for AI in health

April 2025

1. 23 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
2. 18 AprThe Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at CHI 2025
3. 17 AprEmpowering patients and healthcare consumers in the age of generative AI
4. 14 AprEngagement, user expertise, and satisfaction: Key insights from the Semantic Telemetry Project
5. 10 AprDebug-gym: an environment for AI coding tools to learn how to debug code like programmers
6. 9 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 7, 2025
7. 3 AprReal-world healthcare AI development and deployment—at scale
8. 2 AprVidTok introduces compact, efficient tokenization to enhance AI video processing

March 2025

1. 31 MarIdeas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all
2. 26 MarResearch Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
3. 20 MarThe reality of generative AI in the clinic
4. 19 MarMetasurface: Unlocking the future of wireless sensing and communication
5. 19 MarClaimify: Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs
6. 18 MarIntroducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
7. 10 MarSemantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems
8. 6 MarThe AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction
9. 5 MarAdvancing biomedical discovery: Overcoming data challenges in precision medicine

February 2025

1. 25 FebMagma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents across digital and physical worlds
2. 20 FebExploring the structural changes driving protein function with BioEmu-1
3. 19 FebIntroducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
4. 19 FebIdeas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak
5. 12 FebMicrosoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
6. 11 FebExACT: Improving AI agents’ decision-making via test-time compute scaling
7. 11 FebIdeas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
8. 5 FebAdvances to low-bit quantization enable LLMs on edge devices

January 2025

1. 31 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
2. 23 JanIdeas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu
3. 17 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
4. 16 JanIdeas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu
5. 16 JanMatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI
6. 14 JanAutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness

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December 2024

1. 20 DecAIOpsLab: Building AI agents for autonomous clouds
2. 19 DecIdeas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
3. 18 DecResearch Focus: Week of December 16, 2024
4. 17 DecNeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou
5. 17 DecPromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
6. 16 DecMoving to GraphRAG 1.0 – Streamlining ergonomics for developers and users
7. 14 DecNeurIPS 2024: AI for Science with Chris Bishop
8. 13 DecAbstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Jindong Wang and Steven Euijong Whang
9. 7 DecAbstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Weizhu Chen
10. 6 DecAbstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Dylan Foster
11. 6 DecAbstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Pranjal Chitale
12. 5 DecIdeas: Economics and computation with Nicole Immorlica
13. 4 DecResearch Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
14. 4 DecMarS: A unified financial market simulation engine in the era of generative foundation models

November 2024

1. 27 NovAdvances in run-time strategies for next-generation foundation models
2. 25 NovAccelerating drug discovery with TamGen: A generative AI approach to target-aware molecule generation
3. 25 NovLazyGraphRAG: Setting a new standard for quality and cost
4. 19 NovIdeas: The journey to DNA data storage
5. 18 NovIntroducing Yasuyuki Matsushita: Tackling societal challenges with AI at Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo
6. 18 NovBiomedParse: A foundation model for smarter, all-in-one biomedical image analysis
7. 15 NovGraphRAG: Improving global search via dynamic community selection
8. 14 NovOrca-AgentInstruct: Agentic flows can be effective synthetic-data generators
9. 14 NovAbstracts: November 14, 2024
10. 13 NovToward modular models: Collaborative AI development enables model accountability and continuous learning
11. 13 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 11, 2024
12. 12 NovPreventing side-channels in the cloud
13. 11 NovCollaborators: Prompt engineering with Siddharth Suri and David Holtz
14. 6 NovFrom static prediction to dynamic characterization: AI2BMD advances protein dynamics with ab initio accuracy
15. 5 NovAbstracts: November 5, 2024
16. 4 NovAbstracts: November 4, 2024
17. 4 NovMicrosoft at SOSP 2024: Innovations in systems research
18. 1 NovAI-powered microgrids facilitate energy resilience and equity in regional communities
19. 1 NovResearch Focus: Week of October 28, 2024

October 2024

1. 31 OctIntroducing DRIFT Search: Combining global and local search methods to improve quality and efficiency
2. 24 OctIntern Insights: Vaishnavi Ranganathan with Angela Busheska
3. 9 OctResearch Focus: Week of October 7, 2024
4. 1 OctData Formulator: Exploring how AI can help analysts create rich data visualizations

September 2024

1. 30 SepStress-testing biomedical vision models with RadEdit: A synthetic data approach for robust model deployment
2. 30 SepAbstracts: September 30, 2024
3. 26 SepMicrosoft Research Forum Episode 4: The future of multimodal models, a new “small” language model, and other AI updates
4. 25 SepResearch Focus: Week of September 23, 2024
5. 17 SepEureka: Evaluating and understanding progress in AI
6. 12 SepResearch Focus: Week of September 9, 2024
7. 10 SepMedFuzz: Exploring the robustness of LLMs on medical challenge problems
8. 9 SepGraphRAG auto-tuning provides rapid adaptation to new domains
9. 5 SepCollaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene

August 2024

1. 29 AugInnovations in AI: Brain-inspired design for more capable and sustainable technology
2. 28 AugResearch Focus: Week of August 26, 2024
3. 22 AugWhat’s Your Story: Lex Story
4. 16 AugAbstracts: August 15, 2024
5. 14 AugResearch Focus: Week of August 12, 2024
6. 8 AugLarge-scale pathology foundation models show promise on a variety of cancer-related tasks
7. 8 AugCollaborators: AI and the economy with Brendan Lucier and Mert Demirer
8. 5 AugGENEVA uses large language models for interactive game narrative design
9. 5 AugPlayers, creators, and AI collaborate to build and expand rich game narratives
10. 1 AugWhat’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman

July 2024

1. 31 JulResearch Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
2. 29 JulAbstracts: July 29, 2024
3. 25 JulTracing the path to self-adapting AI agents
4. 22 JulMicrosoft at ICML 2024: Innovations in machine learning
5. 18 JulAbstracts: July 18, 2024
6. 17 JulResearch Focus: Week of July 15, 2024
7. 16 JulData-driven model improves accuracy in predicting EV battery degradation
8. 15 JulRUBICON: Evaluating conversations between humans and AI systems
9. 11 JulCollaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth
10. 10 JulUnified Database: Laying the foundation for large language model vertical applications
11. 10 JulEmpowering NGOs with generative AI in the fight against human trafficking
12. 2 JulGraphRAG: New tool for complex data discovery now on GitHub

June 2024

1. 26 JunResearch Focus: Week of June 24, 2024
2. 20 JunBorn in the research lab a decade ago, SWAN continues to accelerate networking in the Microsoft Cloud
3. 19 JunSynergizing habits and goals with variational Bayes: A new framework for biological and artificial embodied agents
4. 18 JunMicroCode: Portable programming for the BBC micro:bit
5. 17 JunMicrosoft at CVPR 2024: Innovations in computer vision and AI research
6. 17 JunIntroducing AutoGen Studio: A low-code interface for building multi-agent workflows
7. 13 JunIdeas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani
8. 12 JunResearch Focus: Week of June 10, 2024
9. 11 JunSIBYL: A machine learning-based framework for forecasting dynamic workloads
10. 10 JunLST-Bench: A new benchmark tool for open table formats in the data lake
11. 5 JunMicrosoft Research Forum Episode 3: Globally inclusive and equitable AI, new use cases for AI, and more
12. 5 JunMicrosoft at FAccT 2024: Advancing responsible AI research and practice
13. 3 JunIntroducing Aurora: The first large-scale foundation model of the atmosphere

May 2024

1. 30 MayWhat’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
2. 29 MayThe Crossroads of Innovation and Privacy: Private Synthetic Data for Generative AI
3. 29 MayResearch Focus: Week of May 27, 2024
4. 23 MayIdeas: Designing AI for people with Abigail Sellen
5. 22 MayGigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
6. 20 MayAbstracts: May 20, 2024
7. 16 MayWhat’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill
8. 15 MayResearch Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
9. 15 MayMicrosoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design
10. 14 MayRASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval
11. 13 MayEnhanced autoscaling with VASIM: Vertical Autoscaling Simulator Toolkit
12. 13 MayMatterSim: A deep-learning model for materials under real-world conditions
13. 8 MayLLM profiling guides KV cache optimization
14. 7 MayLoftQ: Reimagining LLM fine-tuning with smarter initialization
15. 6 MayAbstracts: May 6, 2024
16. 2 MayResearch Focus: Week of April 29, 2024

April 2024

1. 29 AprMicrosoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications
2. 29 AprSIGMA: An open-source mixed-reality system for research on physical task assistance
3. 25 AprIdeas: Exploring AI frontiers with Rafah Hosn
4. 18 AprSAMMO: A general-purpose framework for prompt optimization
5. 17 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
6. 16 AprMicrosoft at NSDI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems
7. 16 AprAbstracts: April 16, 2024
8. 11 AprIdeas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
9. 3 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 1, 2024

March 2024

1. 28 MarAI Frontiers: Rethinking intelligence with Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad
2. 27 MarLearning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web)
3. 21 MarAbstracts: March 21, 2024
4. 20 MarResearch Focus: Week of March 18, 2024
5. 19 MarIntelligent monitoring: Towards AI-assisted monitoring for cloud services
6. 18 MarIntroducing Garnet – an open-source, next-generation, faster cache-store for accelerating applications and services
7. 18 MarExploring how context, culture, and character matter in avatar research
8. 11 MarScaling early detection of esophageal cancer with AI
9. 7 MarImproving LLM understanding of structured data and exploring advanced prompting methods
10. 6 MarResearch Forum Episode 2: Transforming health care and the natural sciences, AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies
11. 6 MarResearch Focus: Week of March 4, 2024
12. 5 MarOrca-Math: Demonstrating the potential of SLMs with model specialization

February 2024

1. 29 FebViSNet: A general molecular geometry modeling framework for predicting molecular properties and simulating molecular dynamics
2. 29 FebAbstracts: February 29, 2024
3. 27 FebStructured knowledge from LLMs improves prompt learning for visual language models
4. 21 FebResearch Focus: Week of February 19, 2024
5. 15 FebWhat’s Your Story: Nicole Forsgren
6. 13 FebGraphRAG: Unlocking LLM discovery on narrative private data
7. 7 FebAI Controller Interface: Generative AI with a lightweight, LLM-integrated VM
8. 7 FebResearch Focus: Week of February 5, 2024
9. 1 FebWhat’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev

January 2024

1. 31 JanMicrosoft Research Forum: New series explores bold ideas in technology research in the era of AI
2. 30 JanAnnouncing recipients of the AFMR Minority Serving Institutions grant
3. 25 JanAbstracts: January 25, 2024
4. 24 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 22, 2024
5. 23 JanMetaOpt: Examining, explaining, and improving heuristic performance
6. 16 JanGHDDI and Microsoft Research use AI technology to achieve significant progress in discovering new drugs to treat global infectious diseases
7. 11 JanTaskWeaver: A code-first agent framework for efficient data analytics and domain adaptation
8. 10 JanAdvancing transparency: Updates on responsible AI research
9. 10 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 8, 2024
10. 4 JanSplitwise improves GPU usage by splitting LLM inference phases

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December 2023

1. 22 DecResearch at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries
2. 20 DecResearch Focus: Week of December 18, 2023
3. 18 DecAI Frontiers: A deep dive into deep learning with Ashley Llorens and Chris Bishop
4. 12 DecAbstracts: December 12, 2023
5. 12 DecSteering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting
6. 12 DecPhi-2: The surprising power of small language models
7. 11 DecAbstracts: December 11, 2023
8. 11 DecNeurIPS 2023 highlights breadth of Microsoft’s machine learning innovation
9. 7 DecMatterGen: Property-guided materials design
10. 7 DecLLMLingua: Innovating LLM efficiency with prompt compression
11. 6 DecAbstracts: December 6, 2023
12. 6 DecMicrosoft at ESEC/FSE 2023: AI techniques for a streamlined coding workflow
13. 6 DecResearch Focus: Week of December 4, 2023
14. 5 DecExploring LLMs’ potential to help facilitators enhance online healthcare communities
15. 5 DecCollaborators: Teachable AI with Cecily Morrison and Karolina Pakėnaitė
16. 4 DecTackling sign language data inequity
17. 1 DecPwR: Using representations for AI-powered software development

November 2023

1. 29 NovThe Power of Prompting
2. 27 NovGPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology
3. 22 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 22, 2023
4. 21 NovOrca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
5. 20 NovLifelong model editing in large language models: Balancing low-cost targeted edits and catastrophic forgetting
6. 20 NovAbstracts: November 20, 2023
7. 17 NovSkeleton-of-Thought: Parallel decoding speeds up and improves LLM output
8. 16 NovWhat’s Your Story: Desney Tan
9. 8 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
10. 7 NovToward developing faster algorithms for minimizing submodular functions

October 2023

1. 30 OctTeachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content
2. 27 OctData Formulator: A concept-driven, AI-powered approach to data visualization
3. 26 OctProject Silica: Sustainable cloud archival storage in glass
4. 25 OctResearch Focus: Week of October 23, 2023
5. 23 OctAbstracts: October 23, 2023
6. 19 OctWhat’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra
7. 18 OctUnderstanding the user: How the Enterprise System Usability Scale aligns with user reality
8. 16 OctDecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models
9. 12 OctMicrosoft at VL/HCC 2023: Focus on co-audit tools for spreadsheets
10. 11 OctResearch Focus: Week of October 9, 2023
11. 9 OctAbstracts: October 9, 2023
12. 6 OctEfficient and hardware-friendly neural architecture search with SpaceEvo
13. 5 OctHoloAssist: A multimodal dataset for next-gen AI copilots for the physical world
14. 5 OctIntern Insights: Dr. Madeleine Daepp with Jennifer Scurrell and Alejandro Cuevas
15. 3 OctAccelerate Foundation Models Research: Supporting a global academic research ecosystem for AI

September 2023

1. 28 SepAI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach
2. 27 SepResearch Focus: Week of September 25, 2023
3. 25 SepAutoGen: Enabling next-generation large language model applications
4. 20 SepNeural Graphical Models
5. 19 SepAnnouncing the DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling large-scale scientific discovery through sophisticated AI system technologies
6. 14 SepMicrosoft at ACM SIGCOMM 2023: Innovating the future of networking
7. 14 SepAI Frontiers: The future of scale with Ahmed Awadallah and Ashley Llorens
8. 13 SepResearch Focus: Week of September 11, 2023
9. 13 SepAbstracts: September 13, 2023
10. 12 SepFP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming provides memory reuse for pure functional programs
11. 8 SepUnderstanding social biases through the text-to-image generation lens
12. 8 SepIntern Insights: Dr. Josh Benaloh with Anunay Kulshrestha and Karan Newatia
13. 7 SepIncorporating chemists’ insight with AI models for single-step retrosynthesis prediction
14. 6 SepFrontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
15. 5 SepRethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era

August 2023

1. 31 AugAI Frontiers: AI in India and beyond with Sriram Rajamani
2. 30 AugBuilding a “heavy metal quartet” of AI compilers
3. 30 AugResearch Focus: Week of August 28, 2023
4. 29 AugUsing AI for tiered cloud platform operation
5. 17 AugCollaborators: Project InnerEye with Javier Alvarez and Raj Jena
6. 16 AugResearch Focus: Week of August 14, 2023
7. 10 AugMicrosoft at KDD 2023: Advancing health at the speed of AI
8. 3 AugCollaborators: Data-driven decision-making with Jina Suh and Shamsi Iqbal
9. 2 AugResearch Focus: Week of July 31, 2023

July 2023

1. 27 JulA fail-in-place approach for sustainable server operations
2. 21 JulMicrosoft at ICML 2023: Discoveries and advancements in machine learning
3. 20 JulCollaborators: Gaming AI with Haiyan Zhang
4. 19 JulResearch Focus: Week of July 17, 2023
5. 12 JulThinking beyond audio: Augmenting headphones for everyday digital interactions
6. 11 JulMicrosoft at ICALP 2023: Deploying cloud capacity robustly against power failures
7. 10 JulRenovating computer systems securely and progressively with APRON
8. 7 JulResearch Focus: Week of July 3, 2023
9. 7 JulDistributional Graphormer: Toward equilibrium distribution prediction for molecular systems
10. 6 JulCollaborators: Holoportation™ communication technology with Spencer Fowers and Kwame Darko

June 2023

1. 29 JunBreaking cross-modal boundaries in multimodal AI: Introducing CoDi, composable diffusion for any-to-any generation
2. 27 JunUnlocking the future of computing: The Analog Iterative Machine’s lightning-fast approach to optimization
3. 23 JunResearch Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
4. 22 JunDeepSpeed ZeRO++: A leap in speed for LLM and chat model training with 4X less communication
5. 22 JunCollaborators: Renewable energy storage with Bichlien Nguyen and David Kwabi
6. 20 JunMicrosoft at CVPR 2023: Pushing the boundaries of computer vision
7. 16 JunImproving Subseasonal Forecasting with Machine Learning
8. 13 JunAccounting for past imaging studies: Enhancing radiology AI and reporting
9. 8 JunAI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
10. 7 JunResearch Focus: Week of June 5, 2023

May 2023

1. 30 May3D telemedicine brings better care to underserved and rural communities, even across continents
2. 24 MayResearch Focus: Week of May 22, 2023
3. 18 MayREACT — A synergistic cloud-edge fusion architecture
4. 18 MayAchieving Zero-COGS with Microsoft Editor Neural Grammar Checker
5. 16 MayLarge-language models for automatic cloud incident management
6. 15 MayHighlights from CHI 2023
7. 12 MayMicrosoft at EuroSys 2023: Systems innovation across the stack to help support an easier, faster, safer, and smarter cloud
8. 10 MayResearch Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
9. 4 MayUsing generative AI to imitate human behavior
10. 4 MayInferring rewards through interaction
11. 3 MayCollaborators: Gov4git with Petar Maymounkov and Kasia Sitkiewicz
12. 2 MayAI self-play for algorithm design

April 2023

1. 26 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 24, 2023
2. 24 AprTLA+ Foundation aims to bring math-based software modeling to the mainstream
3. 19 AprUnifying learning from preferences and demonstration via a ranking game for imitation learning
4. 18 AprAutomatic post-deployment management of cloud applications
5. 17 AprMicrosoft at NSDI 2023: A commitment to advancing networking and distributed systems
6. 13 AprHunting speculative information leaks with Revizor
7. 13 AprAI Frontiers: Models and Systems with Ece Kamar
8. 12 AprResearch Focus: Week of April 10, 2023
9. 10 AprBuilding toward more autonomous and proactive cloud technologies with AI

March 2023

1. 30 MarAI and the Future of Health
2. 30 MarAI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee
3. 29 MarResearch Focus: Week of March 27, 2023
4. 23 MarAI Explainer: Foundation models ​and the next era of AI
5. 23 MarAI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with Sébastien Bubeck
6. 8 MarResearch Focus: Week of March 6, 2023

February 2023

1. 27 FebResponsible AI: The research collaboration behind new open-source tools offered by Microsoft
2. 22 FebResearch Focus: Week of February 20, 2023
3. 8 FebResearch Focus: Week of February 6, 2023

January 2023

1. 25 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 23, 2023
2. 25 JanBiomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure
3. 12 JanAdvancing human-centered AI: Updates on responsible AI research
4. 11 JanResearch Focus: Week of January 9, 2023

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December 2022

1. 19 DecResearch @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AI
2. 12 DecMicrosoft Soundscape – New Horizons with a Community-Driven Approach
3. 8 DecResearch Focus: Week of December 5, 2022
4. 8 DecIOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
5. 5 DecNeurIPS 2022: Seven Microsoft Research Papers Selected for Oral Presentations

November 2022

1. 29 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 28, 2022
2. 17 NovResearch trends in privacy, security and cryptography
3. 17 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 17, 2022
4. 10 NovCloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems
5. 8 NovResearch Focus: Week of November 7, 2022

October 2022

1. 27 OctResearch Focus: Week of October 24, 2022
2. 24 OctECCV 2022 highlights: Advancing the foundations of mixed reality
3. 4 OctResearch Focus: Week of September 26, 2022

September 2022

1. 26 SepAssessing AI system performance: thinking beyond models to deployment contexts
2. 19 SepAI Models vs. AI Systems: Understanding Units of Performance Assessment
3. 14 SepCCF: Bringing efficiency and usability to a decentralized trust model
4. 14 SepMicrosoft Research Summit 2022: What’s Next for Technology and Humanity?
5. 7 SepA game-theoretic approach to provably correct and scalable offline RL

August 2022

1. 25 AugMoCapAct: Training humanoid robots to “Move Like Jagger”

July 2022

1. 20 JulDeepSpeed Compression: A composable library for extreme compression and zero-cost quantization
2. 18 JulConfidential Containers: Verifiably secure computation in the cloud
3. 7 JulAI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery

June 2022

1. 29 JunIntroducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
2. 23 JunGODEL: Combining goal-oriented dialog with real-world conversations
3. 21 JunSwin Transformer supports 3-billion-parameter vision models that can train with higher-resolution images for greater task applicability
4. 13 JunICLR 2022 highlights from Microsoft Research Asia: Expanding the horizon of machine learning techniques and applications

May 2022

1. 31 MayDoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow
2. 23 May(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging large language models to build more robust hate speech detection tools
3. 23 MayPartnering people with large language models to find and fix bugs in NLP systems
4. 16 MayFLUTE: A scalable federated learning simulation platform
5. 5 MayAzure Quantum innovation: Efficient error correction of topological qubits with Floquet codes

April 2022

1. 27 AprMoLeR: Creating a path to more efficient drug design
2. 25 AprPPE: A fast and provably efficient RL algorithm for exogenous noise
3. 19 AprDon’t let data drift derail edge compute machine learning models
4. 13 AprJust Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins Episode 3 with Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock

March 2022

1. 31 MarJigsaw fixes bugs in machine-written software
2. 31 MarJust Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 2 with Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt, Zachary Rowe, and Joanna Velazquez
3. 23 MarJust Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 1 with Desmond Patton and Mary L. Gray
4. 22 MarMicrosoft Translator enhanced with Z-code Mixture of Experts models
5. 22 MarPowering the next generation of trustworthy AI in a confidential cloud using NVIDIA GPUs
6. 14 MarMicrosoft has demonstrated the underlying physics required to create a new kind of qubit
7. 14 MarPeopleLens: Using AI to support social interaction between children who are blind and their peers
8. 8 MarµTransfer: A technique for hyperparameter tuning of enormous neural networks

February 2022

1. 23 FebCOMPASS: COntrastive Multimodal Pretraining for AutonomouS Systems
2. 2 FebUsing reinforcement learning to identify high-risk states and treatments in healthcare
3. 1 FebAdvancing AI trustworthiness: Updates on responsible AI research

January 2022

1. 19 JanDeepSpeed: Advancing MoE inference and training to power next-generation AI scale
2. 12 JanEzPC: Increased data security in the AI model validation process

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December 2021

1. 20 DecAzure AI milestone: Microsoft KEAR surpasses human performance on CommonsenseQA benchmark
2. 17 DecAzure AI milestone: New Neural Text-to-Speech models more closely mirror natural speech
3. 15 DecResearch at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
4. 14 DecAzure AI milestone: New foundation model Florence v1.0 advances state of the art, topping popular computer vision leaderboards
5. 10 DecFS-Mol: Bringing Deep Learning to Early-Stage Drug Discovery
6. 8 DecFinding and fixing bugs with deep learning
7. 6 DecYou get what you measure: New NLU benchmarks for few-shot learning and robustness evaluation
8. 2 DecEfficiently and effectively scaling up language model pretraining for best language representation model on GLUE and SuperGLUE
9. 1 DecToward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology

November 2021

1. 29 NovUnlocking new dimensions in image-generation research with Manifold Matching via Metric Learning
2. 22 NovTutel: An efficient mixture-of-experts implementation for large DNN model training
3. 17 NovSynapseML: A simple, multilingual, and massively parallel machine learning library
4. 9 NovPrivacy Preserving Machine Learning: Maintaining confidentiality and preserving trust
5. 1 NovTuring Bletchley: A Universal Image Language Representation model by Microsoft

October 2021

1. 28 OctACAV100M: Scaling up self-supervised audio-visual learning with automatically curated internet videos
2. 19 OctAnnouncing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognition
3. 18 OctFirst ever Microsoft Research Summit explores science and technology aimed at big challenges
4. 11 OctMicrosoft Translator: Now translating 100 languages and counting!
5. 11 OctUsing DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model

September 2021

1. 28 SepMicrosoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
2. 23 SepReal-world evidence and the path from data to impact
3. 14 SepMicro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables

August 2021

1. 18 AugDeepSpeed powers 8x larger MoE model training with high performance
2. 12 AugNew Future of Work: How remote and hybrid work will shape workplaces and society with Jaime Teevan and Siddharth Suri
3. 11 AugSafe program merges at scale: A grand challenge for program repair research
4. 4 AugMake Every feature Binary: A 135B parameter sparse neural network for massively improved search relevance
5. 4 AugNew Future of Work: Redefining workspaces as hybrid and remote work become more prevalent with Jaime Teevan and Ginger Hudson
6. 3 AugThe rise of parallel chat in online meetings: how can we make the most of it?

July 2021

1. 29 JulNew Future of Work: Managing IT and security in remote scenarios with Jaime Teevan and Matt Brodsky
2. 22 JulOn infinitely wide neural networks that exhibit feature learning
3. 21 JulLecture series aims to help spur dialogue around race and technology
4. 20 JulMachine learning, molecular simulation, and the opportunity for societal good with Chris Bishop and Max Welling
5. 19 JulProject Arno: How Microsoft Research created the technology and industry momentum for Azure to empower telecom operators in the cloud
6. 14 JulNew Future of Work: How developer collaboration and productivity are changing in a hybrid work model
7. 7 JulNew Future of Work: Staying productive and happy when our office is our home with Jaime Teevan and Sonia Jaffe

June 2021

1. 30 JunNew Future of Work: Meeting and collaborating in a remote and hybrid world with Jaime Teevan and Abigail Sellen
2. 29 JunCausalCity: Introducing a high-fidelity simulation with agency for advancing causal reasoning in machine learning
3. 24 JunMicrosoft LReasoner leads the ReClor challenge on logical reasoning
4. 24 JunNew Future of Work: Driving innovation via cross-company research with Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
5. 16 JunSOLOIST: Pairing transfer learning and machine teaching to advance task bots at scale
6. 16 JunEcon4: Uncovering how decision-making shapes individuals and society through behavioral public economics featuring Evan Rose and Hunt Allcott
7. 10 JunHow can generative adversarial networks learn real-life distributions easily
8. 10 JunEcon3: Understanding the media ecosystem and how it informs public opinion in the internet age featuring Hunt Allcott and David Rothschild
9. 7 JunBuilding stronger semantic understanding into text game reinforcement learning agents
10. 2 JunEcon2: Causal machine learning, data interpretability, and online platform markets featuring Hunt Allcott and Greg Lewis

May 2021

1. 26 MayCreating the Future of Software Development
2. 24 MayDeepSpeed: Accelerating large-scale model inference and training via system optimizations and compression
3. 21 MayCHI 2021: Redefining accessibility to build more inclusive technologies
4. 20 MayAnticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
5. 19 MayEcon1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose
6. 17 MayMicrosoft and NVIDIA introduce parameter-efficient multimodal transformers for video representation learning
7. 13 MayCHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
8. 10 MayHands-on research and prototyping for haptics
9. 6 MayMicrosoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
10. 5 MayAdvancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
11. 3 MayConversations with data: Advancing the state of the art in language-driven data exploration
12. 3 MayEverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers

April 2021

1. 26 AprAlexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
2. 19 AprZeRO-Infinity and DeepSpeed: Unlocking unprecedented model scale for deep learning training
3. 14 AprReinforcing program correctness with reinforcement learning
4. 13 AprInnovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel

March 2021

1. 24 MarFactorized layers revisited: Compressing deep networks without playing the lottery
2. 24 MarAdvancing organizational science using network machine learning to measure innovation in the workplace
3. 8 MarLearning visuomotor policies for autonomous systems from event-based cameras
4. 2 MarThe science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search

February 2021

1. 25 FebHEXA: Self-supervised pretraining with hard examples improves visual representations
2. 24 FebAAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
3. 17 FebDesigner-centered reinforcement learning
4. 11 FebDenoised smoothing: Provably defending pretrained classifiers against adversarial examples
5. 8 FebSpeller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages
6. 5 FebResearch Collection – Shall we play a game?
7. 3 FebMicrosoft Vision Model ResNet-50 combines web-scale data and multi-task learning to achieve state of the art

January 2021

1. 27 JanFull stack ahead: Pioneering quantum hardware allows for controlling up to thousands of qubits at cryogenic temperatures
2. 25 JanLAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
3. 21 JanPassword Monitor: Safeguarding passwords in Microsoft Edge
4. 19 JanThree mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation
5. 14 JanVinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
6. 6 JanMicrosoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark

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December 2020

1. 22 DecUnadversarial examples: Designing objects for robust vision
2. 17 DecResearch at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future
3. 11 Dec‘Seeing’ on tiny battery-powered microcontrollers with RNNPool
4. 9 DecMPNet combines strengths of masked and permuted language modeling for language understanding
5. 7 DecNeurIPS 2020: Moving toward real-world reinforcement learning via batch RL, strategic exploration, and representation learning
6. 7 DecResearch Collection – Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
7. 2 DecUtilizing consumer cameras for contact-free physiological measurement in telehealth and beyond
8. 2 DecA Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference
9. 1 DecAdversarial machine learning and instrumental variables for flexible causal modeling

November 2020

1. 30 NovThe human side of AI for chess
2. 30 NovProject InnerEye evaluation shows how AI can augment and accelerate clinicians’ ability to perform radiotherapy planning 13 times faster
3. 19 NovThe future of work, unbound: 2020 and the strange new mobility of space and time
4. 16 NovRESTler finds security and reliability bugs through automated fuzzing
5. 9 NovResearch Collection – Re-Inventing Storage for the Cloud Era

October 2020

1. 28 OctEnabling interaction between mixed reality and robots via cloud-based localization
2. 20 OctA holistic representation toward integrative AI
3. 20 OctPhysics matters: Haptic PIVOT, an on-demand controller, simulates physical forces such as momentum and gravity
4. 19 OctMicrosoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv2, tops XTREME leaderboard
5. 14 OctNovel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks
6. 1 OctArchai can design your neural network with state-of-the-art neural architecture search (NAS)

September 2020

1. 29 SepCodeXGLUE: A benchmark dataset and open challenge for code intelligence
2. 24 SepMeasuring dataset similarity using optimal transport
3. 22 SepProject InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit: Democratizing medical imaging AI
4. 22 SepIn search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
5. 21 SepDialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI
6. 10 SepDeepSpeed: Extreme-scale model training for everyone
7. 3 SepExpressive Pixels: A new visual communication platform to support creativity, accessibility, and innovation
8. 2 SepPlatform for Situated Intelligence: An open-source framework for multimodal, integrative AI

August 2020

1. 31 AugDomain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
2. 28 AugMicrosoft HoloLens 2: Improved Research Mode to facilitate computer vision research
3. 20 AugMineRL sample-efficient reinforcement learning challenge—back for a second year—benefits organizers, as well as larger research community
4. 12 AugResearch Collection: The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft
5. 11 AugAdversarial robustness as a prior for better transfer learning
6. 4 AugICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more
7. 3 AugThree new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond

July 2020

1. 30 JulState-of-the-art algorithm accelerates path for quantum computers to address climate change
2. 23 JulResearchers use a strand-displacing DNA polymerase to do biocomputing
3. 17 JulA path to personalization: Using ML to subtype patients receiving digital mental health interventions
4. 8 JulDefending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
5. 6 JulToward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta
6. 1 JulTeaching a robot to see and navigate with simulation

June 2020

1. 30 JunNewly discovered principle reveals how adversarial training can perform robust deep learning
2. 24 JunMicrosoft Research EMEA and Latin America PhD Awards springboard new ideas across intercontinental research
3. 23 JunEnhancing your photos through artificial intelligence
4. 17 JunHigh-Resolution Network: A universal neural architecture for visual recognition
5. 17 Jun2020 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant supports students’ cutting-edge work
6. 17 JunAccessible systems for sign language computation with Dr. Danielle Bragg
7. 16 JunLearning local and compositional representations for zero-shot learning
8. 16 JunTabellion: A new system for more secure, independently verifiable legal contracts
9. 11 JunXGLUE: Expanding cross-lingual understanding and generation with tasks from real-world scenarios
10. 3 JunProvably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy

May 2020

1. 28 MayMeeting Insights: Contextual assistance for everyone
2. 27 MayOld tools, new tricks: Improving the computational notebook experience for data scientists
3. 27 MayHarvesting randomness, HAIbrid algorithms and safe AI with Dr. Siddhartha Sen
4. 19 MayFairness and interpretability in AI: Putting people first
5. 19 MayResearch Collection: Tools and Data to Advance the State of the Art
6. 19 MayZeRO-2 & DeepSpeed: Shattering barriers of deep learning speed & scale
7. 15 MayObjects are the secret key to revealing the world between vision and language
8. 13 MayDiving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm
9. 12 MayWhere’s my stuff? Developing AI with help from people who are blind or low vision to meet their needs
10. 5 MayVROOM: Giving body to telepresence
11. 4 MayQuantum speedups for unstructured problems: Solving two twenty-year-old problems

April 2020

1. 30 AprResearchers in Microsoft Research Asia lab launch COVID Insights website
2. 21 AprBeyond the prototype: Enabling the long tail of hardware devices
3. 21 AprBehind the phone: The importance of human connections in improving mental health helpline technology
4. 16 AprMicrosoft Research Faculty Fellowship 2020: Researchers in academia at the forefront of technology
5. 13 AprResearch Collection: Research Supporting Responsible AI
6. 9 AprHow research can enable more effective remote work
7. 9 AprA deep generative model trifecta: Three advances that work towards harnessing large-scale power
8. 8 AprProject Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein
9. 7 AprBringing virtual reality to people who are blind with an immersive sensory-based system
10. 6 AprHappy and productive at work: Predicting opportune moments to switch tasks and take breaks
11. 1 AprAn interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith

March 2020

1. 31 MarAlt text that informs: Meeting the needs of people who are blind or low vision
2. 30 MarExtending the reach of care: Tending to patients using chat app technology
3. 30 MarMicrosoft Rocketbox avatar library now available for research and academic use
4. 25 MarMicrosoft’s AI Transformation, Project Turing and smarter search with Rangan Majumder
5. 24 MarData-driven insights for more effective, personalized care in online mental health interventions
6. 23 MarCoyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software
7. 18 MarAuto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani
8. 17 MarTraining deep control policies for the real world
9. 11 MarEngineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
10. 4 MarA brief introduction to fuzzing and why it’s an important tool for developers
11. 4 MarAI, Azure and the future of healthcare with Dr. Peter Lee
12. 3 MarAI Residency: Gaining skills in machine learning through mentorship and real-world applications

February 2020

1. 27 FebPrivate AI Bootcamp: Microsoft researchers share knowledge on cryptography, security, and privacy with PhD students
2. 26 FebExploring the fundamentals of multi-armed bandits
3. 26 FebNeural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline with Dr. Debadeepta Dey
4. 25 FebEMEA scholarship program continues to foster collaboration with academia while new research award targets rising talent
5. 19 FebFive ways your academic research skills transfer to industry
6. 19 FebDemocratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann
7. 12 FebMicrosoft Scheduler and dawn of Intelligent PDAs with Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya
8. 10 FebTuring-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft
9. 10 FebZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters
10. 7 FebAI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
11. 5 FebResponsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi
12. 4 FebThe personal web: Connecting information for better search and recommendation

January 2020

1. 29 JanGoing deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao
2. 28 JanOpen-source library provides explanation for machine learning through diverse counterfactuals
3. 28 JanMicrosoft Investigator fellows accelerate scientific and teaching impact with Azure cloud computing
4. 23 Jan2020 Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships help recipients achieve broad research and educational goals
5. 22 JanProject Rocket platform—designed for easy, customizable live video analytics—is open source
6. 22 JanInnovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani
7. 21 JanWhen bias begets bias: A source of negative feedback loops in AI systems
8. 16 JanBy making text-based games more accessible to RL agents, Jericho framework opens up exciting natural language challenges
9. 14 JanAre all samples created equal?: Boosting generative models via importance weighting

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December 2019

1. 23 DecMicrosoft Research 2019 reflection—a year of progress on technology’s toughest challenges
2. 18 DecFinding the best learning targets automatically: Fully Parameterized Quantile Function for distributional RL
3. 13 DecMaking machines recognize and transcribe conversations in meetings using audio and video
4. 12 DecNext-generation architectures bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with neural symbols
5. 11 DecFastSpeech: New text-to-speech model improves on speed, accuracy, and controllability
6. 11 DecAdaptive systems, machine learning and collaborative AI with Dr. Besmira Nushi
7. 10 DecProvable guarantees come to the rescue to break attack-defense cycle in adversarial machine learning
8. 9 DecProject Petridish: Efficient forward neural architecture search
9. 5 DecGame of Drones at NeurIPS 2019: Simulation-based drone-racing competition built on AirSim
10. 5 DecMicrosoft Research Open Data Project: Evolving our standards for data access and reproducible research
11. 4 DecMetalearned Neural Memory: Teaching neural networks how to remember
12. 4 DecGoing meta: learning algorithms and the self-supervised machine with Dr. Philip Bachman
13. 2 DecThe road less traveled: With Successor Uncertainties, RL agents become better informed explorers

November 2019

1. 27 NovAutonomous systems, aerial robotics and Game of Drones with Gurdeep Pall and Dr. Ashish Kapoor
2. 26 NovOptimistic Actor Critic avoids the pitfalls of greedy exploration in reinforcement learning
3. 25 NovIcebreaker: New model with novel element-wise information acquisition method reduces cost and data needed to train machine learning models
4. 21 NovLogarithmic mapping allows for low discount factors by creating action gaps similar in size
5. 20 NovProgram synthesis and the art of programming by intent with Dr. Sumit Gulwani
6. 13 NovHacking the runway with MakeCode with Dr. Thomas Ball and Dr. Teddy Seyed
7. 6 NovOptics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich

October 2019

1. 30 OctArt + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway
2. 28 OctPipeDream: A more effective way to train deep neural networks using pipeline parallelism
3. 23 OctFrom blank canvas unfolds a scene: GAN-based model generates and modifies images based on continual linguistic instruction
4. 23 OctMachine teaching, LUIS and the democratization of custom AI with Dr. Riham Mansour
5. 22 OctGetting a better visual: RepPoints detect objects with greater accuracy through flexible and adaptive object modeling
6. 21 OctA new era of spatial computing brings fresh challenges—and solutions—to VR
7. 16 OctNews from the front in the post-quantum crypto wars with Dr. Craig Costello
8. 16 OctThe inner magic behind the Z3 theorem prover
9. 9 OctData science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
10. 8 OctExpanding scene and language understanding with large-scale pre-training and a unified architecture
11. 2 OctMMLSpark: empowering AI for Good with Mark Hamilton
12. 2 OctMicrosoft collaborates with SilverCloud Health to develop AI for improved mental health
13. 1 OctInclusive environments empower big dreams

September 2019

1. 25 SepInside AR and VR, a technical tour of the reality spectrum with Dr. Eyal Ofek
2. 23 SepEfficient inference for dynamical models using variational autoencoders
3. 18 SepHCI, IR and the search for better search with Dr. Susan Dumais
4. 16 SepHelping first responders achieve more with autonomous systems and AirSim
5. 16 SepLayer Trajectory BLSTM: New evolution enhances speech recognition technology
6. 13 SepBring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
7. 11 SepInside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
8. 5 SepProject Everest: Advancing the science of program proof
9. 4 SepInclusive design for all, or ICT4D and 4U! with Dr. Ed Cutrell
10. 3 SepRocket-fast embedded TypeScript for MakeCode Arcade

August 2019

1. 29 AugMicrosoft Icecaps: An open-source toolkit for conversation modeling
2. 28 AugHE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
3. 21 AugFirst TextWorld Problems, the competition: Using text-based games to advance capabilities of AI agents
4. 21 AugMachine reading comprehension with Dr. T.J. Hazen
5. 15 AugWho’s to blame? Debugging Internet performance for Azure users with BlameIt
6. 14 AugLive video analytics and research as Test Cricket with Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
7. 9 AugProject Malmo competition returns with student organizers and a new mission: To democratize reinforcement learning
8. 7 AugOptics for the Cloud Research Alliance establishes collaborative research approach to improving cloud technology
9. 7 AugBeautiful data with Dr. Nathalie Riche

July 2019

1. 26 JulAnalyzing ambiguity and word embeddings by probing semantic classes
2. 25 JulBringing the power of machine reading comprehension to specialized documents
3. 23 JulThe KnowRef Coreference Corpus: a resource for training and evaluating common sense in AI
4. 22 JulSIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
5. 22 JulLearning web search intent representations from massive web search logs
6. 17 JulThe future of productivity: People and tools that grow together
7. 17 JulMaking the future of work work for you with Johannes Gehrke
8. 12 JulLeveraging blockchain to make machine learning models more accessible

June 2019

1. 26 JunThe brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
2. 25 JunMicrosoft makes AI debugging and visualization tool TensorWatch open source
3. 24 JunIntroducing MASS – A pre-training method that outperforms BERT and GPT in sequence to sequence language generation tasks
4. 19 JunGame on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer
5. 18 JunSee what we mean – Visually grounded natural language navigation is going places
6. 17 JunA picture from a dozen words – A drawing bot for realizing everyday scenes—and even stories
7. 13 JunEnvisioning privacy preserving image-based localization for augmented reality
8. 12 JunHELP! Training assistive indoor agents to ask for assistance via imitation learning
9. 12 JunAll Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon
10. 11 Jun2019 Dissertation Grant recipients embarking on diverse paths to scientific and societal impact
11. 7 JunExploring job search trends in Canada with search query data: A collaboration with Bank of Canada
12. 6 JunReliability in Reinforcement Learning
13. 6 JunA phonetic matching made inˈhɛvən
14. 5 JunMaking the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
15. 3 JunProvably efficient reinforcement learning with rich observations
16. 3 JunResearchers work to secure Azure Blockchain smart contracts with formal verification

May 2019

1. 31 MayWhat’s in a name? Using Bias to Fight Bias in Occupational Classification
2. 30 MayFashion forward: Researchers, designers debut new tech on New York City runway
3. 29 MayMachine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
4. 28 MaySwimming in creative waters: A young artist, an inventor, and a nurturing sea of family and colleagues
5. 22 MayThe productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
6. 16 MayRobust Language Representation Learning via Multi-task Knowledge Distillation
7. 15 MayBelieve your ears – Hitting all the right notes in spatial sound rendering at ICASSP 2019
8. 15 MaySpeech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
9. 10 MayCreating AI glass boxes – Open sourcing a library to enable intelligibility in machine learning
10. 8 MayReinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
11. 8 MaySpaceFusion: Structuring the unstructured latent space for conversational AI
12. 7 MayIncentivizing information explorers (when they’d really rather exploit)
13. 7 MayAutonomous soaring – AI on the fly
14. 6 MayMinimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
15. 6 MayNew Advancements in Spoken Language Processing
16. 3 MayBeyond spell checkers: Enhancing the editing process with deep learning
17. 3 MayMachine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational
18. 2 May(Th)Inking with data — tapping into the potential of the digital pen
19. 2 MayIntroducing TORC: A rigid haptic controller that renders elastic objects
20. 1 MayDeep InfoMax: Learning good representations through mutual information maximization
21. 1 MayCHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris

April 2019

1. 30 AprInvesting in leading minds—Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
2. 30 AprToward Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence
3. 26 AprHow to better design AI – from ideation to user perception and acceptance
4. 24 AprFroid and the relational database query quandary with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
5. 18 AprAdvancing accessibility on the web, in virtual reality, and in the classroom
6. 17 AprPrototype tablet tricked out with sensors just proves Mom was always right: Posture is important!
7. 17 AprAI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
8. 15 AprLess pain, more gain: A simple method for VAE training with less of that KL-vanishing agony
9. 12 AprMaking ‘micromoments’ work for you
10. 10 AprHolograms, spatial anchors and the future of computer vision with Dr. Marc Pollefeys
11. 8 AprRapidly enabling autonomy at scale with simulation
12. 3 AprEnabling design with Ann Paradiso
13. 2 AprEverCrypt cryptographic provider offers developers greater security assurances

March 2019

1. 22 MarGiant steps and liberating spaces – Virtual Reality is making cool moves
2. 20 MarProject Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
3. 18 MarAdvancing Human-Centered AI
4. 18 MarTowards universal language embeddings
5. 13 MarResearchers seek to simplify the complex in cloud computing
6. 13 MarProgramming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
7. 12 MarCalling all aspiring women in Data Science
8. 11 MarResearchers build nanoscale distributed DNA computing systems from artificial protocells
9. 7 MarPredicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model and a new public dataset
10. 1 MarCloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling

February 2019

1. 27 FebSecuring the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
2. 26 FebHigh performance container networking
3. 22 FebWinners announced in multi-agent reinforcement learning challenge
4. 21 FebMicrosoft SEAL open source homomorphic encryption library gets even better for .NET developers!
5. 20 FebTalking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
6. 13 FebWhat are the biases in my data?
7. 13 FebCompeting in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
8. 13 FebEverything you always wanted to know about extreme classification (but were afraid to ask)
9. 8 FebEmail overload: Using machine learning to manage messages, commitments
10. 6 FebPutting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
11. 6 FebLaunching a new round of projects in the Swiss JRC – Research with impact
12. 1 FebGuidelines for human-AI interaction design
13. 1 FebGetting efficient with “What-happens-if …”

January 2019

1. 30 JanEnable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar
2. 29 JanMicrosoft Research to present latest findings on fairness in socio-technical systems at FAT* 2019
3. 28 JanTraffic updates: Saying a lot while revealing a little
4. 26 JanCreating better AI partners: A case for backward compatibility
5. 23 JanEmpowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
6. 22 JanScientists discover how bacteria use noise to survive stress
7. 17 JanWinning combination: 2019 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships support top talent
8. 16 JanMicrosoft Ability Initiative: A collaborative quest to innovate in image captioning for people who are blind or with low vision
9. 16 JanBuilding contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett
10. 14 JanInfluencing mainstream software—Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
11. 14 JanProject Everest: Reaching greater heights in internet communication security
12. 9 JanScaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko

2018 142

December 2018

1. 27 DecMicrosoft Research 2018: 10 memorable blogs topping a year of open source and innovation
2. 18 DecCompetition win a steppingstone in the greater journey to create sustainable farming
3. 12 DecSoundscaping the world with Amos Miller
4. 11 DecFirst TextWorld Problems—Microsoft Research Montreal’s latest AI competition is really cooking
5. 10 DecA Deep Learning Theory: Global minima and over-parameterization
6. 6 DecFast, accurate, stable and tiny – Breathing life into IoT devices with an innovative algorithmic approach
7. 5 DecLearning to teach: Mutually enhanced learning and teaching for artificial intelligence
8. 5 DecChasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sébastien Bubeck
9. 4 DecUnlikely research area reveals surprising twist in non-smooth optimization
10. 3 DecGetting into a conversational groove: New approach encourages risk-taking in data-driven neural modeling
11. 3 DecThe Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

November 2018

1. 30 NovReDial: Recommendation dialogs for bridging the gap between chit-chat and goal-oriented chatbots
2. 30 NovDiscovering the best neural architectures in the continuous space
3. 29 NovMinimizing trial and error in the drug discovery process
4. 28 NovMachine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop
5. 20 NovHyperscale cloud reliability and the art of organic collaboration
6. 19 NovChallenge accepted—MARLÖ competition among conference highlights
7. 14 NovHearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
8. 14 NovMicrosoft AirSim now available on Unity
9. 7 NovCelebrating 20 years of MSR in Asia with Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon
10. 6 NovGrowing a generation of computer scientists – Microsoft Research Asia at 20 and going beyond technical achievement
11. 1 NovCracking code-mixing — an important step in making human-computer interaction more engaging

October 2018

1. 31 OctEncouraging developers and manufacturers to innovate with Eye Control
2. 31 OctStoring digital data in synthetic DNA with Dr. Karin Strauss
3. 29 OctPeeking into the future of mobile systems
4. 26 OctData Science Summer School students take a fresh look at the world’s largest rapid transit system
5. 19 Oct10 years is an eternity in the tech world, but we are just getting started
6. 18 OctThe poet in the machine: Auto-generation of poetry directly from images through multi-adversarial training – and a little inspiration
7. 17 OctDesigning the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton
8. 15 OctUIST a showcase for innovation and an opportunity for professional growth
9. 10 OctWorkshop yields concrete AI solutions for advancing societal good
10. 10 OctLeading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes
11. 5 OctMicrosoft Research presents its latest advances in computer systems at OSDI 2018
12. 5 OctThe Microsoft Infer.NET machine learning framework goes open source
13. 3 OctThe future is fusion with Asta Roseway
14. 2 OctSPACER and Z3: Accessible, reliable model checking as theorem proving

September 2018

1. 26 SepReflections – the Grace Hopper Conference past and present
2. 26 SepAll about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi
3. 19 SepInternships Ahoy! with Kirsten Bray, Wei Dai and Sara Beery
4. 12 SepPlaying to the crowd and other social media mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym
5. 10 SepDeep Learning Indaba 2018: Strengthening African machine learning
6. 7 SepComputer Vision at Microsoft: Uniting fundamental research and industry-defining products
7. 6 SepMachine learning, data mining and rethinking knowledge at KDD 2018
8. 5 SepPutting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler

August 2018

1. 31 AugThinking outside-of-the-black-box of machine learning on the long quest to perfecting automatic speech recognition
2. 29 AugMalmo, Minecraft and machine learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann
3. 27 AugOptimizing imperative functions in relational databases with Froid
4. 22 AugCryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
5. 21 AugDoWhy – A library for causal inference
6. 21 AugMicrosoft Research bringing its best to SIGCOMM 2018
7. 17 AugFaculty Summit 2018 – Advancing the future shape of systems toward a global AI supercomputer
8. 15 AugA brief history of networking (and a bit about the future too) with Dr. Victor Bahl
9. 10 AugPhD Scholarship Program: Recognizing great research across EMEA
10. 8 AugA conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
11. 1 AugThree Microsoft fellowship programs support academics and the future of the computer science field
12. 1 AugResearch you can (really) use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam

July 2018

1. 30 JulWatch the live stream of the 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit – Systems/Fueling Future Disruptions
2. 27 JulProject Malmo: Reinforcement learning in a complex world
3. 26 JulTop students contemplate the shape of the AI future at PhD Summer School
4. 25 JulSummer of MakeCode for kids
5. 18 JulACM announces creation of Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award
6. 18 JulBuilding a global AI supercomputer – The 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
7. 17 JulMachine Learning for fair decisions
8. 13 JulNew perspectives on contextual bandit
9. 12 JulTextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents, inspired by text-based games
10. 11 JulHelping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
11. 10 JulThe story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
12. 9 JulIn between the lines: Broadening access to web search by understanding the needs of people with dyslexia
13. 9 JulAdversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
14. 2 JulDemocratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces

June 2018

1. 27 JunExamining the social impacts of artificial intelligence with Dr. Fernando Diaz
2. 25 JunProbabilistic predicates to accelerate inference queries
3. 22 JunMicrosoft Research Montreal welcomes Fernando Diaz, Principal Researcher and lead of the new Montreal FATE Research Group
4. 21 JunAnnouncing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
5. 19 JunMicrosoft Research Dissertation Grants: Broadening the PhD pipeline to increase innovation
6. 18 JunMicrosoft HoloLens facilitates computer vision research by providing access to raw image sensor streams with Research Mode
7. 15 JunUsing transfer learning to address label noise for large-scale image classification
8. 14 JunBelieving is seeing: Insightful research illuminates the newly possible in the realm of natural and synthetic images
9. 13 JunTeaching computers to see with Dr. Gang Hua
10. 8 JunMicrosoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management
11. 6 JunGoing beyond the research experience – Exceptional mother in 1970s Romania inspired Stefan Saroiu to know his destiny at a very early age.
12. 6 JunThe democratization of data science with Dr. Chris White

May 2018

1. 30 MayOptimizing Barnes-Hut t-SNE
2. 30 MayMaking intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
3. 23 MayAdvancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
4. 17 MayBringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
5. 16 MayInsights on the future of video calling in emergency situations
6. 16 MayNot lost in translation with Arul Menezes
7. 15 MayMicrosoft Research welcomes Landon Cox, Senior Researcher with a passion for privacy and empowering users worldwide
8. 14 MaySounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
9. 11 MayRapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
10. 9 MayClouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
11. 7 MayCustomized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
12. 2 MayMachine learning and the incredible flying robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor
13. 1 MayLearning from Source Code

April 2018

1. 30 AprBoundary-seeking GANs: A new method for adversarial generation of discrete data
2. 27 AprNeural-Guided Deductive Search: A best of both worlds approach to program synthesis
3. 25 AprAI, machine learning and the reasoning machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon
4. 25 AprMeasuring employment demand with internet search data
5. 23 AprHEARING IS BELIEVING – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind
6. 23 AprChatPainter: Improving text-to-image generation by using dialogue
7. 23 AprManipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality
8. 18 AprUncanny Valley and the Sense of Touch
9. 18 AprGetting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski
10. 16 AprFrom research idea to research-powered product: behind the scenes with Azure Sphere
11. 13 AprPlatform for Situated Intelligence: Tools and Framework for Multimodal Interaction Research
12. 11 AprTales from the Crypt(ography) Lab with Dr. Kristin Lauter
13. 10 AprSecond homomorphic encryption standardization workshop delivers the goods
14. 9 AprProject Zanzibar: Blurring the distinction between the digital and the physical worlds via tangible interaction in a portable implementation
15. 6 AprMicrosoft Shines at NSDI ’18
16. 4 AprHonoring Burton Smith, a creative visionary in computing
17. 4 AprHelping women thrive in graduate school! It’s time for CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop
18. 4 AprAI for the Developing World with Dr. Ranveer Chandra

March 2018

1. 29 MarFour Big Bets For Better AI Research: A Personal Journey
2. 28 MarWhen Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
3. 26 Mar2018 EMEA Scholarships to Advance Compelling Research in Healthcare, AI, Future of Work
4. 22 MarMicrosoft and Tsinghua University Work Together on Open Academic Data Research
5. 21 MarBuilding Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
6. 20 MarSwiftKey 7.0: A big change under a small ‘+’
7. 9 MarMicrosoft Pix’s AI gets even smarter, Business Card feature works with LinkedIn to make it easier than ever to manage your contacts
8. 8 MarTouching the Virtual: How Microsoft Research is Making Virtual Reality Tangible
9. 7 MarBrokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam

February 2018

1. 28 FebKeeping an Eye on AI with Dr. Kate Crawford
2. 21 FebMachine Learning and the InnerEye for Cancer Treatment with Dr. Antonio Criminisi
3. 20 FebRAVEN: Reducing Power Consumption of Mobile Games without Compromising User Experience
4. 15 FebGive your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
5. 15 FebCode in the Classroom with Dr. Peli de Halleux
6. 14 FebI Chose STEM – Event Recap
7. 12 FebThe women who inspire women to pursue careers in STEM
8. 8 FebImproving AI Systems with Human Feedback and no Heartburn
9. 7 FebMicrosoft researchers unlock the black box of network embedding
10. 7 FebGetting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic
11. 5 FebTyping in the Virtual Office Environment: Examining the Effects of Keyboard and Hand Representation in VR
12. 1 FebNew institute explores the future of Cortana

January 2018

1. 31 JanNeural Program Synthesis and the Quest to Democratize Programming with Dr. Rishabh Singh
2. 30 JanLearn Artificial Intelligence Skills via Residency at Microsoft
3. 25 JanComputer science researchers discuss the future of AI at Academic Research Summit in India
4. 24 JanLife at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar
5. 17 JanThe future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
6. 10 JanFunctional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
7. 9 JanClass of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI
8. 3 JanHow Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr. Ben Zorn

2017 82

December 2017

1. 22 DecRemote memories accessed, and created, at SOSP 2017 in Shanghai, China
2. 20 DecNew Microsoft Pix features let you take bigger, wider pictures and turns your videos into comics
3. 20 DecVisualizing Data and Other Big Ideas with Dr. Steven Drucker
4. 13 DecGetting Virtual with Dr. Mar Gonzalez Franco
5. 12 DecCodeTalk: Rethinking IDE accessibility
6. 8 DecCollecting telemetry data privately
7. 7 DecNew Meta-learning Techniques for Neural Program Induction
8. 6 DecDeliberation Network: Pushing the frontiers of neural machine translation
9. 6 DecHybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen
10. 5 Dec‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
11. 4 DecWill machines one day be as creative as humans?
12. 4 DecNew Microsoft Research Podcast invites you to log on, tune in and geek out
13. 4 DecAI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz
14. 4 DecSnippets from the Revolution – An Interview with Dr. Jaime Teevan
15. 1 DecMicrosoft Research and Microsoft Azure improve the efficiency and capacity of cloud-scale optical networks

November 2017

1. 17 NovFigureQA: an annotated figure dataset for visual reasoning
2. 13 NovMicrosoft extends AirSim to include autonomous car research
3. 13 NovNeural fuzzing: applying DNN to software security testing
4. 8 NovScientists use machine learning to predict DNA binding rates from sequence

October 2017

1. 31 OctMicrosoft Azure and Microsoft Research take giant step towards eliminating network downtime
2. 24 Oct2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps
3. 23 OctMakeCode for Minecraft makes learning to code super fun
4. 20 OctChanging the world with data science
5. 6 OctEqual parts passion and skill key to Microsoft Research high school intern projects
6. 5 OctMeasuring human happiness and frustration using data science in the cloud
7. 4 OctOpportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM

September 2017

1. 29 SepPrimetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV
2. 28 SepCounting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
3. 5 SepNominations wanted: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program 2018

August 2017

1. 22 AugMicrosoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
2. 22 AugReal world interactive learning at cusp of enabling new class of applications
3. 21 AugMicrosoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
4. 4 AugProgram that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair

July 2017

1. 31 JulCreating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
2. 31 JulSummer Institute unpacks the future of IoT
3. 27 JulAI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
4. 26 JulTransfer learning for machine reading comprehension
5. 24 JulResearchers build nanoscale computational circuit boards with DNA
6. 24 JulGenetic Algorithm, in Reverse Mode
7. 23 JulSecond version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor for implementing DNNs
8. 21 JulFaculty Summit ’17 sessions available on-demand
9. 16 JulFaculty Summit 2017 focuses on technical breakthroughs and societal influences
10. 14 JulPath Guide: A New Approach to Indoor Navigation
11. 13 JulTransportation Data Science at Microsoft
12. 13 JulFind out how humans and machines are collaborating at the 2017 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
13. 6 JulRelevance of Unsupervised Metrics in Task-Oriented Dialogue for Evaluating Natural Language Generation
14. 5 JulWhat problems will we solve with a quantum computer?
15. 5 JulWatch the livestream of the 2017 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit—The Edge of AI

June 2017

1. 27 JunDissertation Grant Winners Announced
2. 26 JunMicrosoft and intelligent markets at ACM EC’17
3. 22 JunGetting compilers right: a reliable foundation for secure software
4. 20 JunHonoring Charles P. Thacker, a visionary computer scientist who changed the world
5. 16 JunResearchers develop new visual intelligence techniques to boost smart home security
6. 14 JunHybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) Achieving super-human performance on Ms. Pac-Man
7. 9 JunA Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
8. 8 JunNSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration — looking back after one year
9. 5 JunPresenting the winners of the Project Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge

May 2017

1. 30 MayProject Vermont: Improving camera performance through curved image sensors
2. 29 MayToward AI that operates in the real world
3. 19 MayHolograms: The future of near-eye display?
4. 19 MayP: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
5. 10 MayAdvancing machine comprehension with question generation
6. 8 MayWhere cryptography and quantum computing intersect
7. 8 MayCHI Part 2: Creating technologies that enhance lives in the areas of health and eye tracking
8. 4 MayCHI Part 1: Interacting through touch, virtually and physically

April 2017

1. 21 AprDeep Learning for Program Synthesis

March 2017

1. 28 MarFrom cancer to crop genomics — using Research as a Service at the intersection of computers and biology
2. 23 MarTeaching AI to make decisions and communicate
3. 14 MarThe next challenges for reinforcement learning
4. 14 MarMicrosoft challenge: Build a collaborative AI in Minecraft
5. 13 MarDemocratizing AI to improve citizen health
6. 9 MarA new understanding of the world through grassroots Data Science education at UC Berkeley
7. 7 MarNew Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant provides support to under-represented groups in computing

February 2017

1. 21 FebFrom improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
2. 6 FebPartnership yields key breakthroughs in VR’s “grand challenge”
3. 3 FebAI is getting smarter; Microsoft researchers want to ensure it’s also getting more accurate
4. 2 FebMicrosoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers

January 2017

1. 31 Jan2017 Microsoft Research PhD scholarships support break-through projects in six countries
2. 30 JanMicrosoft Research and the industrial research cycle
3. 20 JanProject PrivTree: Blurring your “where” for location privacy
4. 18 JanMicrosoft continues to support data science research with $3M cloud credits to NSF BIGDATA program
5. 9 JanCreating curious machines: Building information-seeking agents

2016 82

December 2016

1. 20 DecMemory & machines: A study in goal-oriented dialogue systems
2. 9 DecDecomposing tasks like humans: Scaling reinforcement learning by separation of concerns
3. 8 DecStack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
4. 2 DecSubstance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference
5. 1 DecMaking better use of the crowd

November 2016

1. 29 NovTop PhD students gather at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum 2016
2. 18 NovInterpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience
3. 11 NovEvents in Seoul foster artificial intelligence discussion and collaboration
4. 3 NovSriram Rajamani squashed bugs on road to leadership role in Microsoft’s India research lab

October 2016

1. 10 OctBots generate video titles and tags to bring AI researchers one step closer to visual intelligence
2. 7 OctHoloLens future highlights wide ranging vision research at ECCV
3. 6 OctMicrosoft accelerates data science at The Alan Turing Institute with $5m in cloud computing credits

September 2016

1. 16 SepBoosting fitness and workplace performance looks to machine learning for answers
2. 1 SepMicrosoft Research brings summer school to Russia’s emergent tech hub

August 2016

1. 26 AugSummer school data science research could trigger real world changes
2. 24 AugNanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
3. 11 AugLong-term collaboration takes aim at mobile browsing
4. 10 AugPhD Summer School brings top students to Cambridge
5. 9 AugMicrosoft researchers enable secure data exchange in the cloud
6. 8 AugMicrosoft NLP researchers converge at ACL 2016, edging ever closer to human-like conversational experiences

July 2016

1. 27 JulOur open source commitment: The proof is in the projects
2. 25 JulResearchers team up with Chinese botanists on machine learning, flower-recognition project
3. 22 JulThe next 25 years of research: Disruption, invention and an element of surprise
4. 20 JulCalling all Internet of Things researchers…
5. 15 JulMicrosoft fellowship program supports women in computing
6. 14 JulHarry Shum announces MSR Alumni Network
7. 14 JulMicrosoft Research Faculty Summit opens
8. 8 JulMicrosoft Research at IJCAI 2016: Developing technologies that allow people and machines to collaborate
9. 7 JulPreliminary KDD Cup 2016 third phase and overall results announced

June 2016

1. 30 JunContest finalists use Microsoft Azure to discover the beauty of programming
2. 24 JunSharing our vision at CVPR 2016
3. 23 JunMicrosoft boosts NSF’s Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs with $3M in cloud computing credits
4. 21 JunAutoML Challenge: A leap forward for machine learning competitions
5. 17 JunMicrosoft researchers present 18 papers at the International Conference on Machine Learning
6. 17 JunCyber-physical systems you can bet your life on
7. 17 JunCloud computing changes the way we practice public speaking
8. 14 JunFiring up next-generation data scientists
9. 10 JunMicrosoft improves programming flexibility of its AI toolkit
10. 2 JunMicrosoft’s Jeannette M. Wing to judge $100 million MacArthur Foundation competition

May 2016

1. 25 MayLatin American Faculty Summit showcases AI research, emphasizes why it matters
2. 25 MayIs Pluto a Planet?
3. 23 MayMicrosoft researchers present ways for securing technology old and new
4. 20 MayMicrosoft Research receives IEEE Council honor
5. 20 MayThe next phase of Microsoft Academic: intelligent bots at your service!
6. 18 MaySupporting positive change for women in technology careers starts within organizations
7. 16 MayMicrosoft Quantum Challenge results are in!
8. 13 MayTwo Microsoft researchers elected to National Academy of Sciences
9. 11 MayThe SwimTrain exergame makes swim workouts fun again
10. 11 MayMicrosoft’s Jeannette M. Wing: Basic research is ‘the foundation of American prosperity and progress’
11. 5 MayPreventing flood disasters with Cortana Intelligence Suite
12. 2 MayAzure egress fee waiver for the academic community
13. 2 MaySimon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society

April 2016

1. 28 AprEnhanced virtual reality among new Microsoft research advances at CHI 2016
2. 26 AprOpening the door to innovation: winners of the first Microsoft Open Source Challenge announced
3. 15 AprA Decade of Cooperation with the China Computer Federation Supports Fundamental Research in Computer Science
4. 14 AprSecuring safe water through Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud
5. 13 AprPegasus II mission sends balloon high above Earth and invites you along for an Internet of Things ride
6. 13 AprCrowdsourced health: How big data can enhance medical research
7. 11 AprTheoretical and practical wonders of the web: the 25th International WWW Conference
8. 11 AprTheoretical and practical wonders of the web: the 25th International WWW Conference
9. 1 AprWanted: the next generation of data scientists
10. 1 AprWanted: the next generation of data scientists

March 2016

1. 25 MarMind meld, Microsoft Research style
2. 25 MarCultivating collaboration: a people first approach
3. 23 MarComputational thinking, 10 years later
4. 3 MarOpening the world of advanced software technology

February 2016

1. 29 FebIEEE Computer Society honors Wolfram Schulte for research leadership, contributions to program verification
2. 26 FebExpeditions: Exploring the unknown
3. 25 FebBest of both worlds: one researcher’s dual approach
4. 24 FebBuckled up and ready to go? Untangling airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure
5. 23 FebMicrosoft opens up online infrastructure to the research community
6. 22 FebYong Rui wins IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award
7. 22 FebParticipate in Pegasus II: Real-time Internet of Things experiment from the edge of space
8. 18 FebMicrosoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research presents exciting innovations
9. 17 FebWorldWide Telescope finds a new home at the American Astronomical Society
10. 12 Feb2016 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Projects Announced
11. 2 FebPredicting ocean chemistry using Microsoft Azure

January 2016

1. 29 JanBringing together history and data science with Microsoft Azure
2. 27 JanAnnouncing the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge awardees
3. 21 JanPopular Microsoft Selfie app updated with social sharing
4. 15 JanNew thinking in computer education
5. 12 JanMICRO-48 highlights diverse research topics

2015 117

December 2015

1. 23 DecExclusive: Experts and audience agree AI is an opportunity, not a threat
2. 16 DecJeannette Wing promotes computational thinking at World Computer Congress
3. 16 DecMicrosoft-led research team wins Marr prize for outstanding computer vision research
4. 11 DecConvex optimization highlights ICCV program session
5. 11 DecIEEE Fellow Sengupta transformed cloud computing, data storage, network routing
6. 8 DecACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists
7. 7 DecMicrosoft Computational Network Toolkit offers most efficient distributed deep learning computational performance
8. 7 DecFinding a community: Women in Machine Learning workshop celebrates 10th year
9. 4 DecDeep learning, machine learning advancements highlight Microsoft’s research at NIPS 2015
10. 3 DecDeng receives prestigious IEEE Technical Achievement Award

November 2015

1. 12 NovProject Catapult servers available to academic researchers
2. 12 NovMicrosoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for more efficient big data research
3. 11 NovIdeas blossom for using Microsoft HoloLens
4. 9 NovExtensive crowdsourcing study reveals surprising results in reversal of platform design assumptions
5. 5 NovAt Microsoft Research Asia, artificial intelligence is informing, and informed by, the human experience
6. 3 NovInteractive art featured at ACM Multimedia 2015
7. 1 NovJennifer Chayes opens inaugural Women in Data Science conference

October 2015

1. 29 OctThe Evolution of Bing’s ObjectStore
2. 26 OctSwimming in a deluge of user generated content
3. 26 OctPreview of ACM’s Multimedia Conference Oct 29 keynote address
4. 26 OctACM MM: Best Papers
5. 21 OctCIKM: Sports bookie wins machine learning competition
6. 19 OctCIKM 2015: Best paper awards announced
7. 19 OctHere’s why Microsoft cares about basic research — and you should, too
8. 18 OctCIKM: “Slow Search with People” highlights welcoming keynote
9. 15 OctPlanning for SIGMOD/PODS 2016: Upcoming dates and a review of SIGMOD 2015
10. 15 OctObama discusses innovation and STEM education
11. 13 OctGHC open source code-a-thon to benefit humanitarian relief
12. 13 OctKukelova honored for advancing computer vision and other engineering applications
13. 8 OctThe summer of data science
14. 6 OctICIP 2015: Best Paper Awards
15. 1 OctMicrosoft researchers explore a practical way to build bug-free software

September 2015

1. 28 SepArtificial intelligence is raising concerns, and here’s what researchers are doing to address them
2. 17 SepCan smartphones use less energy to browse the web?
3. 11 SepMeeting the data challenges of urban computing
4. 10 SepMicrosoft Student Summer Camp embodies the hacker spirit
5. 7 SepUBICOMP 2015: Best paper awards
6. 3 SepThe end of Moore’s law? Oh, not again…
7. 3 SepResearchers make advances in database security “arms race”

August 2015

1. 28 AugAll that RaaS: saving lives and transforming healthcare economics
2. 24 AugMobileFusion: Research project turns regular mobile phone into 3D scanner
3. 18 AugMicrosoft researcher Jamie Shotton receives MIT Tech Review young innovator honor
4. 17 AugHitesh Ballani previews SIGCOMM 2015
5. 10 AugMaking machines speak like people

July 2015

1. 24 JulAnnouncing the Innovation Challenge: using data science to create “food resilience”
2. 24 JulCrowd wisdom among many topics examined at top AI event
3. 20 JulICML 2015 best paper summary: A nearly-linear time framework for graph-structured sparsity
4. 20 JulSora high performance software radio is now open source
5. 16 Jul2015 Summer School inspires top PhD students
6. 15 Jul2015 Faculty Summit informs and inspires
7. 13 JulICML 2015 best paper summary: Optimal and adaptive algorithms for online boosting
8. 10 JulYoung coders compete in 2015 Beauty of Programming
9. 9 JulExploring the frontiers of computing
10. 9 JulMicrosoft researchers have developed a way to make wearables last longer
11. 8 JulRecent progress on language and vision: Observations from NAACL and CVPR 2015
12. 8 JulThe 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit breaks records
13. 7 JulRankNet: A ranking retrospective
14. 6 JulThe quantum quest at Microsoft
15. 6 JulAcademics invited to create new Microsoft HoloLens experiences
16. 2 JulMicrosoft open sources WorldWide Telescope
17. 1 JulExplore advances in artificial intelligence—and much more
18. 1 JulStanding the test of time: Microsoft researcher honored for prescient machine learning work
19. 1 JulMicrosoft researcher Don Syme honored with Silver Medal from Royal Academy of Engineering

June 2015

1. 29 JunTop student research recognized at ACM banquet
2. 26 JunAnnouncing the Microsoft Academic Graph: Let the research begin!
3. 25 JunInnovation from the ground up and into the cloud
4. 23 JunSmartphone app takes aim at noise pollution
5. 19 JunAward-winning theory from Microsoft researcher goes beyond famous Nash Equilibrium
6. 19 JunMicrosoft’s Jeannette Wing honored for transforming how the world views computing
7. 17 JunInnovative curriculum prepares future problem-solvers in Korea
8. 16 JunZ3 wins 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Award
9. 11 JunMicrosoft researcher wins prestigious computer graphics award for hyperlapse and other work
10. 11 JunMicrosoft researchers tie for best image captioning technology
11. 10 JunProject Premonition: bringing researchers together to detect diseases before they become an outbreak
12. 8 JunMicrosoft’s Rick Szeliski previews CVPR 2015
13. 8 JunMicrosoft researchers accelerate computer vision accuracy and improve 3D scanning models
14. 5 JunExposing young people to linguistics

May 2015

1. 29 MayLiveLabs: testing the usefulness of mobile data
2. 28 MayChain reaction of collaboration
3. 27 MayBaym updates ‘Personal Connections’ with new research insights on communicating in the digital age
4. 21 MayCelebrating the first Microsoft Research Korea • Japan Academic Day
5. 19 MayMicrosoft issues RFP for Surface Hub
6. 19 MayMaking mobile phones more useful, and addictive
7. 11 MayTune in for the latest on devices and networking
8. 8 MayOpen-source projects shine at workshop
9. 6 MayCollaborating to improve efficiency of the cloud in the increasingly connected world of big data

April 2015

1. 29 AprCode Hunt: creating a community with a game
2. 20 AprFrom the boardroom to the operating room: Making human-computer interaction for an era of more personal computing
3. 17 AprMicrosoft Azure helps build a smart campus
4. 16 AprLab of Things helping seniors who live alone
5. 9 AprResearch moves from the lab to the street
6. 9 AprProbabilistic programming goes large scale: From reducing email clutter to any machine learning task
7. 8 AprContest promotes automation of machine learning
8. 2 AprMicrosoft Azure helps researchers predict traffic jams
9. 1 AprCollaborative research improves search engine speed

March 2015

1. 24 MarDiversity in data science: Microsoft Research’s summer school aims high
2. 20 MarCryptographer’s challenge: Keeping genetic secrets while advancing genetic research
3. 17 MarLab of Things enables research and teaching
4. 9 MarDreaming big at SXSWedu
5. 5 MarChinese Tradition Inspires Machine Learning Advancements, Product Contributions

February 2015

1. 26 FebThe human touch in computing
2. 25 FebMicrosoft Research Expands Microsoft Band Productivity Functionality
3. 23 FebMachine Learning Gets Big Boost from Ultra-Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator
4. 20 Feb2015 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced
5. 19 FebCelebrating diversity in computing
6. 18 FebScholarship aims to increase women in computing
7. 18 Feb2015 Oscars Prediction Model Navigates Backlash, Outrage, Shifting Sentiment
8. 17 FebNCWIT and Microsoft Research Kick Start Academic Programs for Attracting Women to Computing Fields
9. 17 FebOrleans Simplifies Development of Scalable Apps for the Cloud
10. 13 FebBuilding the talent pipeline: the HKUST joint lab story
11. 10 FebMicrosoft Researchers’ Algorithm Sets ImageNet Challenge Milestone
12. 9 FebComputer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs
13. 6 FebRichard Szeliski’s Passion Rewarded with Election to National Academy of Engineering

January 2015

1. 27 JanTrill Moves Big Data Faster, by Orders of Magnitude
2. 27 JanEric Horvitz Receives AAAI Feigenbaum Prize; Shares Reflections On AI Research
3. 6 JanJoint lab marks 10 years of collaborative research in natural language processing
4. 6 JanEquation of a Fuzzing Curve — Part 2/2

2014 162

December 2014

1. 31 DecAcademia and industry unite to teach big data research
2. 23 DecNew Research Brings Precision to Sampling Methods Used in Statistics and Machine Learning
3. 22 DecTop Posts of 2014: Deep Learning, Predictive Analytics, and Human-Computer Interaction
4. 22 DecAddressing Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning
5. 18 DecCoping with floods—of water and data
6. 18 DecEquation of a Fuzzing Curve — Part 1/2
7. 16 DecCloud computing helps make sense of cloud forests
8. 11 DecReproducibility as a service: can the cloud make it real?
9. 10 DecEmpowering the problem solvers
10. 4 DecNew community promotes research in sign language recognition
11. 1 DecIs a Safer Cloud on the Horizon?

November 2014

1. 17 NovFitzgibbon Channels Led Zeppelin into Practical Engineering
2. 14 NovThird International Women’s Hackathon continues into December
3. 12 NovMachine learning in the cloud made easier for researchers—Azure ML grants available
4. 7 NovA year of research in the cloud

October 2014

1. 29 OctBringing Predictability to Cloud Server Storage
2. 29 OctA New, Deep-Learning Take on Image Recognition
3. 27 OctMOOR brings lab research capability to MOOCs
4. 23 OctUnraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Computing
5. 21 OctMicrosoft Open Letter to Academic Research Community
6. 21 OctCelebrating eScience and the contributions of Paul Watson
7. 17 Oct2014 Microsoft Student Summer Camp in China inspires budding talent
8. 13 OctHelping the LGBT Community Access the Internet
9. 9 OctThe Woman Who Put the Vim in Xim
10. 8 OctHopping with enthusiasm at the Grace Hopper Celebration
11. 8 OctShare Your Photos, Not Your Phone
12. 8 OctOSDI ’14 Highlight: Preserving Trust in the Cloud
13. 6 OctA Strong Sense for Natural Interactions
14. 3 OctLiterome: extracting knowledge from biomedical publications
15. 3 OctEstimating Hidden Bug Count — Part 3/3
16. 2 OctInternships pay big dividends
17. 1 OctSupporting the innovation pipeline

September 2014

1. 30 SepEstimating Hidden Bug Count — Part 2/3
2. 30 SepEstimating Hidden Bug Count — Part 1/3
3. 29 SepA Data-Driven Crystal Ball
4. 22 SepInterview with 2014 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award Winner Gordon Bell
5. 16 SepMicrosoft Researcher Receives Prestigious Funai Achievement Award
6. 16 SepSummer school in Russia explores research in the cloud
7. 10 SepIndexing Audio-Video Content, with a Bit of Research Assistance
8. 5 SepBig data tamed with the cloud
9. 2 SepA new tool to correct DNA sequencing errors using consensus and context

August 2014

1. 27 AugSummer Bridge students catch computing fever
2. 26 AugHorvitz at KDD: From Data to Decisions
3. 20 AugLooking skyward: WWT Digital Dome project brings planetariums to Chinese schools
4. 19 AugMobility and Networking Researchers Making a Big Impact in the Cloud
5. 19 AugDevelopers Get Even More Productive
6. 15 AugWindUp: Researching Patterns of Content Creation and Exchange
7. 14 AugComputing at School: rethinking how computing is taught
8. 11 AugMicrosoft Research at SIGGRAPH 2014
9. 5 AugBeyond Tapping and Sliding
10. 4 AugPlatt Plenty Excited About AI
11. 4 AugPractice and Theory of Security Reviews — Part 3

July 2014

1. 31 JulPhD Summer School explores cutting-edge computing
2. 29 JulHow might climate change affect our food supply?
3. 29 JulMoving Food-Resilience Data to the Cloud
4. 28 JulFrom quantum computing to show dogs, Faculty Summit informed and inspired
5. 28 JulSecurity Reviews: The Heuristics Zoo, Part 2/2
6. 24 JulStation Q: the Quest for a Quantum Future
7. 23 JulSecurity Reviews: The Heuristics Zoo, Part 1/2
8. 18 JulProject Adam and the Future of Programming
9. 18 JulPractice and Theory of Security Reviews
10. 15 JulNew hope for people living with paralysis
11. 15 JulStopping Bugs Before They Sneak into Software
12. 14 JulOn Welsh Corgis, Computer Vision, and the Power of Deep Learning
13. 14 JulMicrosoft announces new research tools at the 2014 Faculty Summit
14. 14 JulMaking Cortana the Researcher’s Dream Assistant
15. 11 JulKorea’s computer science talent sparkles at Microsoft Research Asia
16. 10 JulNew Spanish edition of “The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery”
17. 10 JulSports Fans Enjoy Power of Leibniz Entity Recognition
18. 9 JulConjecture Proof Leads to Pólya Prize
19. 9 JulLearn what’s hot in computing research
20. 8 JulSupporting technology’s rising stars in the UK
21. 2 JulThe Code That No One in the Cloud Can Live Without
22. 1 JulGulwani Wins 2014 Robin Milner Young Researcher Award

June 2014

1. 27 Jun“Beauty of Programming”—delighting in the art of coding
2. 26 JunShotton Receives Young Researcher Accolade
3. 25 JunChasing the Impossible Dream: GPS-Based Locations Indoors
4. 16 JunCatapult: Moving Beyond CPUs in the Cloud
5. 11 JunFrom Grassroots to Government
6. 11 JunNurturing the future of computer science
7. 10 JunKinect for Windows helps decode the role of hand gestures during conversations
8. 10 JunSeeking Answers amid World Cup Excitement
9. 9 JunMicrosoft researcher adds industry wisdom to Stanford HCI course
10. 9 JunTheorem Prover Sheds New Light on Stem-Cell Behavior
11. 5 JunJaron Lanier Wins German Book Trade’s Peace Prize
12. 4 JunMicrosoft Research connects with software engineers at ICSE
13. 4 JunAsian students shine during the International Women’s Hackathon
14. 3 JunAI Takes to the Skies
15. 3 JunSoftware promises timely diagnosis of pneumonia in ICU patients

May 2014

1. 28 MayEnabling Cross-Lingual Conversations in Real Time
2. 19 MayMicrosoft Research – Inria Joint Centre: inventing today, tomorrow’s world
3. 16 MayThe warm heart of Chile embraces TouchDevelop and the Lab of Things
4. 15 MayWhat if coding were a game?
5. 12 MayMicrosoft Research’s Indian Election Game
6. 12 MayNetworked and distributed at SBRC
7. 8 MayHow Search Can Help in a Medical Crisis
8. 8 MayMaking It Easy for Educators to Go Cutting-Edge
9. 7 MayComputer science takes center stage in Chile
10. 5 MayTwo Years On, New York City Lab’s Roots Run Deep
11. 2 MayHow Today’s Creativity Will Inform Our Entertainment of the Future

April 2014

1. 29 AprReproducible research: are we there yet?
2. 28 AprFrom Drug Wars to 3-D Silhouettes
3. 24 AprEnhancing learning through the cloud
4. 24 AprHacking Women Helping Women
5. 23 AprChayes, Lamport Elected Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
6. 22 AprResearcher Teevan Wins Borg Early Career Award
7. 21 AprFetchClimate—harnessing the cloud to find and share environmental data
8. 18 AprInspiring female hackers in Brazil
9. 18 AprOffice Remote: Getting Better and Better
10. 17 AprAnticipating More from Cortana
11. 17 AprNaiad: Big-Data Analysts Welcome
12. 17 AprBringing Big-Data Dreams Down to Earth
13. 17 AprWWT brings astronomy to life for children of all ages
14. 14 AprBringing cloud computing to researchers and scientists in Asia
15. 11 AprCloud computing charts a path to scientific discovery
16. 9 AprPartnerships propel computer science
17. 8 AprCan Robots Have Social Intelligence?
18. 8 AprDumais Receives Athena Lecturer Award
19. 4 AprMicrosoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1
20. 4 Apr2014 Microsoft Research Awards for SEIF announced
21. 3 AprMicrosoft Research Puts Its Stamp on NSDI ’14
22. 3 AprWorkshop launches joint research center in Spain
23. 1 AprGetting back to first principles with eScience in the Cloud workshop

March 2014

1. 28 MarNew online Windows Azure training for researchers
2. 24 MarInviting girls to dream big
3. 21 MarIntersection of Music, Technology Can Be Found in Cambridge, Mass.
4. 20 MarThe New Blink: Better than Ever
5. 19 MarMicrosoft Research support for climate change studies
6. 18 MarLeslie Lamport Receives Turing Award
7. 18 MarHelping SQL Server Rev Up to Full Speed
8. 18 MarNext for Rothschild: Bringing Rationality to March Madness
9. 17 MarOffice Lens Is a Snap
10. 10 MarLet’s HereHere It for NYC
11. 5 MarZooTracer: Setting a Track Record

February 2014

1. 28 Feb2014 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced
2. 27 FebChronoZoom and zombies head to SXSWedu
3. 27 FebSelect Students’ Summer Plans: Big Apple, Big Data
4. 25 FebChatting with the Author of ‘It’s Complicated’
5. 20 FebAn Early Peek into the Oscars’ Envelopes
6. 20 FebLearn to tell stories with data at the Excel for Research webinar
7. 17 FebBing Code Search Makes Developers More Productive
8. 14 FebGrants and scholarships promote women’s participation in computing
9. 13 FebLampsonFest: Celebrating a Computing Legend
10. 11 FebMicrosoft Research Sends 3 to CHI Academy
11. 7 FebBuilding cloud virtual machines for research
12. 5 FebBuxton, Han on Channel 9: Friends Swapping Stories
13. 5 FebFrom flying robots to energy-efficient memory systems
14. 3 FebLab of Things keeps growing

January 2014

1. 30 JanCloud-computing training for researchers marches on
2. 29 JanFinding More Space in Spectrum
3. 27 JanMicrosoft Research Team Creates Seattle Gigapixel ArtZoom, an Interactive City Panorama
4. 27 JanYoung talent gathers at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum
5. 23 JanCommunity empowerment and growing more women in tech
6. 22 JanStroke recovery gets a boost from Kinect
7. 20 JanMicrosoft Research adopts Open Access policy for publications
8. 16 JanZhengyou Zhang: Microsoft Research’s Latest ACM Fellow
9. 16 JanLatest recipients of Windows Azure for Research Awards announced
10. 16 JanMicrosoft Research’s Lauter Named Next AWM President
11. 15 JanBlake’s Gibbs Lecture Focus: Machines That See, Powered by Probability
12. 10 JanWorkshop highlights medical uses of Kinect technology
13. 7 JanA New Spin for Photosynth
14. 6 JanWorldWide Telescope celebrates new release