At the workshop, 400 female graduate students in their first, second, or third years will listen to speakers, attend mentoring lunches, meet other graduate students in their research areas, get one-on-one career mentoring and have many informal chats.
The Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA awards scholarships to fund the most promising and groundbreaking computer science research by PhD students across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are extremely proud today to highlight some of the selected projects for 2018.
“Ask yourself how you really want to interact with virtual objects? The simple answer is that we want to handle them as if they are real, just reach out a hand to grasp them, pick them up, feel what they’re made of, and do all…
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce. The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant…
Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple large displays, proper lighting, free from distractions and isolated from…
Class of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI By Sandy Blyth A graduate student working on technology that leverages human brain signals to accelerate robot learning and another student who is developing models of human conversations that capture what is explicitly communicated and…
By Yuanchao Shu, Associate Researcher, and Börje Karlsson, Sr. Research Dev Lead, Microsoft Research Mobile outdoor GPS navigation apps have proven to be lifesavers to countless people. With a smartphone in hand, it is easy to find your way to a destination, even in an…
By Justin Cranshaw, Researcher, Microsoft Research With its focus on the relationships between people and computation, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) excels at creating technologies that marry human skills with computational functionality, to enable outcomes neither humans nor computers could achieve by themselves. This…
A preview of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems By Justin Cranshaw, Researcher, Microsoft Research Human-computer interaction (HCI) research at Microsoft provides a human-centered perspective on the future of computing, reshaping the roles computers play in our lives and propelling society…
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are designed to help promising young researchers focus on their studies,…
By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Microsoft Research recently concluded its eighth annual summer school in Kazan, Russia, challenging students to conceptualize and build new applications from the sensors and devices emerging from the Internet of Things (IoT). “Our summer schools are an opportunity to expose…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Over the next 25 years, research scientists will use technology to better humanity, to make more sense of the world and to use our time more efficiently. We’ll disrupt some industries and invent others. We’ll produce technology that we…
