Johnson R. Apacible is a computer science expert whose contributions benefit billions of end users all over the world. He earned his masterβs degree in computer science at the Michigan State University in 1990 and obtained another post graduate degree in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in 2015.
Unknown to many, it is because of his accomplishment that we can quickly and efficiently access information through our laptops and smartphones. He wrote the code for Windows operating system used by billions of people around the world. He was a key architect of the Microsoft Internet Information Server that is still being used today to run hundreds of millions of websites.
His works at Microsoft Research have significant impact on the future direction of information technology. His research on user interruption modelling in 2003 is the key building block for current artificial intelligence research. He has an important role in the first large-scale traffic prediction project β one of the top ten breakthrough technologies β now being used in areas like disaster planning, supply chain, and finance. In 2012, his Microsoft Research Team enabled companies to build more cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. In 2014, his team garnered two Guinness Book of Records in smartphone texting with highly accurate language decoding technology called WordFlow. He led Project Adam that set a new world record in computer image recognition 30 times faster and more accurate than the previous state of the art system.
Engr. Johnson Apacible is the 2018 UP Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Awardee for Science and Technology (Computer Science).Β