News and Awards

Jamie Shotton was named as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 (opens in new tab) for young innovators whose inventions and research are deemed most exciting by the editors of Technology Review.

Quantum computers are still a distant prospect, but Microsoft researchers say we should strengthen online encryption against them now.

Jennifer Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Award (opens in new tab), the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (opens in new tab) for her leadership in the research…

Homomorphic encryption allows people to use data in computations even while that data are still encrypted.

Luca Cardelli received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for significant and lasting contributions to the field of programming languages. Read more > (opens in new tab)

Chris Burges and Erin Renshaw received the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Test of Time Award for their prescient machine learning work published in the 2005 paper, Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent. They…

Polina Bayvel FREng, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks, the members of the ONG team Dr Lidia Galdino, Dr Robert Killey, Dr Robert Maher, Dr Seb Savory and Dr Benn Thomsen, received the 2015 Royal…

Don Syme named one of three winners of the prestigious UK Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2015 (opens in new tab) for an outstanding personal contribution to engineering by an early to mid-career engineer…

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Next at Microsoft podcast series. In this edition, Desney Tan, Microsoft principal researcher, and Amish Patel, director of experiences and design for the Personal Devices Group at Microsoft,…

Microsoft Research’s Z3 theorem prover received the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (opens in new tab). This prestigious award honors an institution or individuals for “developing a software system that has had a…