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In the news | Microsoft Worklab
Designing the New Hybrid Meeting Experience—for Everyone
How teams from across Microsoft worked together to help remote and in-person workers see eye to eye. It began with a couple of folding tables from Costco. In November, Greg Baribault, a product leader for Microsoft Teams, and his colleague…
Career Award | The Royal Society
Abi Sellen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Abigail Sellen is elected as one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world’s leading technology companies, and her seminal…
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they’re taking on the role…
EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
| Tahina Ramananandro, Aseem Rastogi, and Nikhil Swamy
EverParse is a framework for generating provably secure parsers and formatters used to improve the security of critical code bases at Microsoft. EverParse is developed as part of Project Everest, a collaboration between Microsoft Research labs in Redmond, Washington; India;…
Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan
Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…
Designer-centered reinforcement learning
| Batu Aytemiz, Mikhail Jacob, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann
In video games, nonplayer characters, bots, and other game agents help bring a digital world and its story to life. They can help make the mission of saving humanity feel urgent, transform every turn of a corner into a gamer’s…
LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
| Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…
Awards | IEEE
3 Microsoft researchers elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2021
Steve Hodges, Ivan Tashev and Tom Zimmermann were elevated to the level of IEEE Fellow for 2021. The accomplishments that are being honored are a result of important contributions that led to the advancement or application of engineering, science and…
In the news | The Health-Tech Podcast
The Health-Tech Podcast: #166: Aditya Nori, Lead in Health Intelligence at Microsoft Research Cambridge
On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has…