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Sriram Rajamani squashed bugs on road to leadership role in Microsoft’s India research lab
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research After a handful of years writing code for the telecommunications and design automation industries, computer bugs got the best of Sriram Rajamani. He witnessed firsthand how poorly constructed code caused programs to crash and…
Awards | MacArthur Foundation
Bill Thies named 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Bill Thies was named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his work creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world. He is a…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Mind meld, Microsoft Research style
In a two-day summit in February that was as much mind meld as conference, 45 PhD candidates from the top computer science departments in the United States met with a group of Microsoft researchers and engineers for the Student Summit…
In the news | SIGMOBILE
ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2016
RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing interest in exploiting wireless infrastructure…
In the news | Aminer
2016 AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in Data Mining
The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List will name 2,000 of the world’s top-cited research scholars from the fields of artificial intelligence over the next ten years (2020 – 2029).
In the news | Yelp
Grand Prize in Yelp Dataset Challenge
His ‘Mining Quality Phrases from Massive Text Corpora’ research was a Round Four winner.
Sriram Rajamani has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >
Awards | ACM
Sriram Rajamani named 2015 ACM Fellow
Sriram Rajamani was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow for his contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >
In the news | NetworkWorld
Why Micro Datacenters really matter to mobile’s future
Microsoft Research distinguished scientist Victor Bahl has been spreading the word about Micro Datacenters, also known by the adorable name cloudlets, as a key concept for optimizing the performance and usefulness of mobile and other networked devices via the cloud.