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Host: Sujata Banerjee Speakers: Torsten Hoefler, Microsoft and ETH Zurich; Abdul Kabbani, Microsoft The Ultra Ethernet Consortium set out to redefine Ethernet-based interconnects for AI and

Host: Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Microsoft Research Speaker: Deeksha Moodasarige Shama Passive monitoring of cognitive load can enable personalized user experiences and even accelerate human learning

Host: Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research Speaker: Hossein Hafezi, NYU We present IronDict, a transparent dictionary construction based on polynomial commitment schemes.

Host: Betül Durak, Microsoft Research Speaker: Victor Youdom Kemmoe An accumulator is a cryptographic system for compactly representing a set of elements such that every element in the set has a

Host: Hannes Gamper, Microsoft Research Speaker: Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tampere University Spatial audio captures the directional and environmental characteristics of sound, enabling immersive

Host: Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research Speaker: Varun  Madathil, Yale University Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model by having each selected device push only its model update to a

This explainer video unpacks the science behind paraphrasing a protein—a defining technique of Microsoft’s Paraphrase Project.

How do we ensure that AI systems are not only technologically advanced but also deeply resonant and beneficial for the specific communities they aim to serve?

Website privacy policies detail an online service's information practices, including how they handle user data and rights.

Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and guests Tessa Alexanian, James Diggans, and Bruce Wittmann discuss the Paraphrase Project—a red-teaming effort that exposed and secured a biosecurity vulnerability in

FIDO synced passkeys address account recovery challenges by enabling users to back up their FIDO2 private signing keys to the cloud storage of passkey management services (PMS).

Despite improvements in authentication mechanisms, compromise of online accounts remains prevalent. Therefore, technologies to detect compromise retroactively are also necessary.

Learn about Microsoft Research India’s journey from its inception to becoming a leading research center in computer science in India. Learn more about Microsoft Research India: microsoft.

Watch the founder, former and current leaders, and researchers at the Microsoft Research India lab talk about its unique culture.

Smartphone theft is common, yet little research explores how users prepare for or respond to such incidents.

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have established them as agentic systems capable of planning and interacting with various tools.

We present the formal verification of Apple's iMessage PQ3, a highly performant, device-to-device messaging protocol offering strong security guarantees even against an adversary with quantum

Email spoofing is a critical technique used in phishing attacks to impersonate a trusted sender.

The recent rollout of passkeys by hundreds of web services online is the largest attempt yet to achieve the goal of passwordless authentication.

SMS fraud has surged in recent years. Detection techniques have improved along with the fraud, necessitating harder-to-detect fraud techniques.

Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher, and Su Lin Blodgett, Principal Researcher, both from Microsoft Research Montréal, discuss the anthropomorphic design and perception of generative AI systems.

Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science, shares a major milestone in biomolecular simulation: BioEmu, an emulator that predicts protein shape changes and stabilities

Paolo Costa, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, presents a breakthrough in AI infrastructure: using microLEDs to overcome scaling limitations in current communication

Kwangjun Ahn, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, introduces Dion, a next-generation optimizer in the style of Muon that orthonormalizes only the top-r subspace via amortized power

Mojan Javaheripi, Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, presents Phi-4-Reasoning and Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus—two 14B models designed to advance complex reasoning in small-scale

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Anonymity is essential for free speech and expressing dissent, but platform moderators need ways to police bad actors.

The EMV contactless payment system has many independent parties: payment providers, terminal companies, smartphone companies, banks and regulators.

This work bridges medical literature on multimorbidity with data science approaches to exploratory health data analysis.