2015 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced
Microsoft Research Cambridge has long engaged in collaboration with academic researchers through research projects, Joint Research Centers, internships, and event sponsorships.
Engineering at Microsoft Research: Open Evening
Have you ever wondered what happens at Microsoft Research Cambridge and what it’s like to work there?
Reproducibility as a service: can the cloud make it real?
Research published in academic journals is trustworthy. Or is it? This question is being asked more and more these days. While few doubt the integrity of the researchers, many in the scientific community are concerned about the inability to reproduce experiments. If the work is not reproducible, how can its reliability be judged?
Sleeping rough for Byte Night raises £6,000 for Action for Children
A team from Microsoft Research in Cambridge joined 125 other tech and business workers to sleep rough on October 3 for Byte Night Cambridge and raised £6,140 for Action for Children’s homelessness prevention services.
Fitzgibbon channels Led Zeppelin into practical engineering
When it comes to research, the concept of “head-banging” most likely conjures images of researchers banging their heads against walls or dry-erase boards.
Machine learning in the cloud made easier for researchers: Azure ML grants available
It seems that everybody today wants to employ machine learning in their research.
Distinguished Research Lecture explores healthcare innovation
Join Microsoft Research on 18 November to hear from Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham.
Computing at School: rethinking how computing is taught
Microsoft Research Vice President Tony Hey recently addressed teachers at the Computing at School conference in the UK, where state-funded primary and secondary schools will soon teach computing fundamentals as a science.
PhD Summer School explores cutting-edge computing
Call it the invasion of the computer literati: on the last day of June, 78 PhD students converged on Cambridge to begin five days of networking and knowledge exchanges during the Microsoft Research Cambridge 2014 PhD Summer School.
Microsoft supports technology’s rising stars in the UK
The United Kingdom has faced some tough economic times in the past 10 years, but the technology industry has remained strong throughout. The tech sector has played a key role in helping the economy bounce back from the recessions of 2008–2009 and 2011–2012.
Computer science education: from grassroots to government
Simon Peyton Jones’ contributions to computer science continue to be recognised, and now, so is his advocacy for computing education.
Theorem prover sheds new light on stem-cell behavior
Advances in computer science in recent years have had dramatic effects on how more traditional sciences are conducted in the 21st century. That has become common knowledge by now, but if you require further proof, just turn to the June 6 issue of Science.
This is only a test: a virtual ecosystem for crashing (and restoring) the biosphere
Imagine pulling together reams upon reams of data and scientific knowledge to create a simulation of the environment – not just of a county or a region, but of the world.
2014 Microsoft Research Awards for SEIF announced
Arjmand Samuel, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Connections, writes:
Nataša Pržulj announced as BCS Roger Needham Award 2014 winner
Sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge
Meet five dynamic Microsoft women inspiring change in technology
In honour of International Women’s Day tomorrow (March 8), Microsoft Research is celebrating five extraordinary individuals.
ZooTracer: setting a track record
People love to watch animals. That’s why zoos exist. That’s why photographic safaris command princely sums. That’s why cat videos have become an unstoppable force.
2014 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced
Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Joint research yields flying robots and energy-efficient memory systems
Yesterday marked the kickoff workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, which serves German-speaking students) and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, which serves French…
Workshop highlights medical uses of Kinect technology
In keeping with the January ritual of reflecting on the past year’s accomplishments, Microsoft Research Cambridge is eager to share information about an event they hosted in November: the Body Tracking in Healthcare workshop.
Latest Microsoft Research Luminary: Lucas Joppa, Conservation Scientist
Over the past several years, Microsoft Research Cambridge has established its credentials as a serious player in the area of computational ecology, so it’s no great surprise that work from that lab caught the attention of Prince William during a recent trip to the London Zoo.
Cloud computing for environmental science webinar airs tomorrow
Preserving biodiversity, understanding animals’ social interactions, and predicting droughts: these are all key research areas for ecologists and environmental scientists. And like so many areas of research these days, they are all data intensive and thus potential beneficiaries of cloud computing.
Resources abound for researchers wanting to use cloud computing
Cloud computing offers tremendous advantages in terms of scale and computer power — not to mention costs — to those grappling with today’s data-intensive research.
Scale out your research with virtual machines: Windows Azure webinar
Researchers often ask: “What’s the easiest way to get started with cloud computing?”
Windows Azure for Research gets sociable
Microsoft Research would like to invite you to participate in the new Windows Azure for Research social media sites on LinkedIn and Twitter.