Microsoft Research

June 4, 2014

Simon Bisson writes that remarks made by Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, at a recent Future in Review conference offer “insight into the importance of AI (artificial intelligence) to Microsoft.”

May 17, 2014

The game uses puzzles that players explore using clues presented as test cases, then modify their code to match the functional behavior of secret solutions. Once players’ code matches, lights flash and sounds play, letting players know that they have “captured” the code.

May 16, 2014

Earlier in May, Microsoft Research visited the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and at the former, presented “TouchDevelop: Create Rich Mobile Cloud Apps on Your Device” to students from the computer sciences department.

May 14, 2014

Sometimes our lives are so busy, it’s hard to remember how we fill our days. With the Time of My Life app from Microsoft Research, you can track where you spend your time.

May 12, 2014

As the final votes are cast for the India’s general election, which concludes Monday evening, Microsoft Research is using this monumental exercise in democracy to test a new crowdsourcing prediction game.

May 8, 2014

Along with collaborators at the Stanford School of Medicine, Microsoft Research’s Nina Mishra is working on a project that examines how people use search engines in time-critical situations— and how that could translate to a phone being able to walk a person through resolving an emergency situation.

May 7, 2014

In Chile, more than 250 people are at the three-day Microsoft Research Latin American Faculty Summit 2014, working together to find new approaches to solving current economic, scientific and social problems.