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Microsoft’s Victor Bahl On The Past And Future Of The Internet
20 years feels like an eternity in the life of the internet. Back then, a Microsoft researcher named Victor Bahl was working on something that most of us take for granted now: the first Wi-Fi hotspot in a public place.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Creating better AI partners: A case for backward compatibility
Traditional metrics on performance of the AI component are not sufficient when the AI technology is used by people to accomplish tasks.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Peeking into the future of mobile systems
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, highlights research projects incolving cloud computing and deep neural networks.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
UIST a showcase for innovation and an opportunity for professional growth
One of the top-tier conferences in human-computer interaction, UIST has a reputation for embracing invention, creativity, and some of the most novel emerging technologies, making it no surprise that Microsoft has been a big contributor over the years.
Awards | IIT Dehli
Venkat Padmanabhan receives IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director of MSR India, received the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile systems, and his work over the years has led to highly-cited papers and paper awards, technology…
DoWhy – A library for causal inference
| Amit Sharma and Emre Kiciman
For decades, causal inference methods have found wide applicability in the social and biomedical sciences. As computing systems start intervening in our work and daily lives, questions of cause-and-effect are gaining importance in computer science as well. To enable widespread…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
The Big Data Hubs are a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort that supplies cloud computing credits to large scientific projects, including Azure credits donated by Microsoft.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
Introducing Microsoft Research Open Data—a new data repository in the cloud dedicated to facilitating collaboration across the global research community.
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski
Emotions are fundamental to human interaction, but in a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment group at Microsoft Research, believes…