Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The HCII2025 Conference is proud to announce Susan Dumais as the 2025 recipient of the ‘HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT’. Susan is a pioneering researcher whose work has reshaped information retrieval, search engines, and human-computer…
The technology brings in weather, soil and other data from satellites as well as farm sensors onto a Microsoft data platform called Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (previously called FarmBeats), so farmers can see precisely…
Microsoft Research congratulates Yasuyuki Matsushita on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to photometric 3D modeling and computational photography.
Over the past few decades, advances in information technologies have allowed firms working to optimize their supply chains to move from decision-making on the basis of intuition and experience to more automated and data-driven methods,…
In the guts of a new type of computer, a bunch of tiny LEDs emit a green glow. Those lights have a job to do. They’re performing calculations. Right now, this math is telling the…
Microsoft has revealed the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model improves in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims, particularly in solving math problems. That’s partly the…
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities while using far fewer computational resources than its larger competitors. The 14-billion-parameter Phi-4 frequently outperforms much larger models like Google’s Gemini…
One of the key questions driving Ece Kamar’s research as managing director of Microsoft’s AI Frontiers Lab is how to coordinate networks of these agents—AI systems that can perform autonomous tasks beyond the scope of…
According to Ashley Llorens, corporate vice president and managing director at Microsoft Research, AI models will soon be able to handle far more complex tasks, such as triaging customer requests or tracking employee expenses. Additionally,…
As data grows, so does the need to store it. Microsoft’s Project Silica is offering an archive alternative to tape with the promise of permanence.
