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Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s…
’12 Campaign: Predicting the U.S. Election
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s a presidential election year in the United States, and that, we’ve learned, means that pollsters are on the prowl. The electorate for the forthcoming balloting will be sampled, questioned, categorized, sliced, and…
Microsoft Research Debuts N.Y.C. Lab
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In the two decades since the formation of Microsoft Research, the organization has grown from its beginnings on Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash., into a global powerhouse with 12 labs across four…
Dans l’actualité | NAE
Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 2011
For innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information.
Dans l’actualité | SIGIR
ACM SIGIR Salton Award (lifetime achievement), 2009
For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.
Dans l’actualité | ACM
Elected ACM Fellow, 2006
For research contributions to information retrieval and human-computer interaction.
Dans l’actualité | SIGIR
SIGIR Test of Time Awards
For the 1998 paper, Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure.
Dans l’actualité | Forbes
Spam killers
Researchers working at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. headquarters have come up with intriguing ways to turn the computational power of a PC against the crap that people seek to put into it.