News and Awards

Best Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia Conference, SIGMM 2002 

The publication Multimedia Content Screening Using a Dual Watermarking and Fingerprinting System was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2002 ACM Multimedia Conference.

Rico Malvar receives Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society 

For development of lapped transforms and contributions to audio and video coding techniques.

SIGIR Test of Time Awards 

For the 1998 paper, Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure.

A Classical Mind: Microsoft Researcher Receives Kyoto Prize 

It’s been 50 years since Sir Anthony Hoare studied Latin and Greek as a schoolboy, but he still remembers the difficulty of mastering each tongue’s complicated grammar rules. As hard as he tried, he couldn’t…

Microsoft Research Professor Wins International Acclaim for Pioneering Work in Software Science 

Professor Tony Hoare, a member of Microsoft Research’s lab in Cambridge UK, has been awarded this year’s Kyoto Prize by Japan’s Inamori Foundation for his pioneering and fundamental work in software science. One of the…

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.

Henrique Malvar named an IEEE Fellow 

For contributions to the theory and practice of lapped transforms, fast multirate filter banks, and signal coding.

Buxton wins CHCCS Achievement Award 

For the significant contribution over the many years that Bill has made to the field of human-computer interaction. Bill has demonstrated that he is a leader, a creative researcher and an excellent communicator who inspires…

Best Paper Award, Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1992 

Henrique S. Malvar and David H. Staelin were awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in Image (Video) and Multidimensional Signal Processing for the paper entitled, The LOT: Transform Coding Without Blocking Effects,…

Rico Malvar awarded CNPq Doctoral Fellowship