Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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…
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,…
Today we will share how the Applied Sciences team used a multi-interdisciplinary approach to achieve a breakthrough in power efficiency, inference speed and memory efficiency for a state-of-the-art small language model (SLM), Phi Silica.
Our increasingly digitized world is creating more data every year, including videos from ubiquitous smart phones, observations from billions of sensors and surveillance cameras, output from artificial intelligence, and much more. Until now, exponential growth…
Magentic-One is a new generalist multi-agent system developed by Microsoft Research, designed to handle open-ended tasks based on web and file information across various domains. This essay will examine the architecture of Magentic-One, its capabilities,…
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.
ArrayTrack: A Fine-Grained Indoor Location System (USENIX NSDI, 2013) introduced a pioneering approach to RF-based indoor localization and wireless sensing by leveraging phase-array-based signal processing. Moving beyond traditional wireless signal strength measurements, it utilized multiple…
Microsoft Research India plans to expand its Shiksha Copilot, aimed at improving learning outcomes with engaging content, with multimodal, multilingual and multi-device dimensions to help teachers with vision impairments create lesson plans. “The possibilities for…
Microsoft unveiled Aurora in June, an AI model that draws on atmospheric data. The company said in a blog post introducing the model that a team of researchers developed it to forecast in the most…
