Microsoft Research Lab – India

September 2, 2015

Many cities are packed with cameras pointlessly recording everything they see, but smart algorithms could allow them to keep only footage that matters.

August 20, 2015

Microsoft has encroached on Google’s turf on two different fronts.

August 20, 2015

Bing will scan whatever is currently on your screen for information and then display snippets of relevant results.

August 3, 2015

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

May 26, 2015

Lauter spoke about how cryptography will have to change in the advent of quantum computing, and how mathematics will yet again provide both the tools and the weapons in battle to protect information.

May 14, 2015

Ravindran Kannan was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences—one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious honorary societies, which includes scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions who conduct interdisciplinary, long-term policy research on complex…

April 22, 2015

Quantum computers potentially offer a faster way to calculate chemical properties, but the exact implications of this speed-up have only become clear over the last year.

March 20, 2015

Kristin Lauter is solving a problem you may not even know you have: She’s working to keep your most personal data private and secure.

March 1, 2015

There are unique challenges posed by cryptography research. This interview examines potential threats to modern security techniques and how to overcome them.