Microsoft Research News and Highlights

You'd like to think that artistic merit drives commercial success. Unsurprisingly, a new study says that artworks gain popularity based on social influence--and chance.

Microsoft Research has announced the winners of its 2014 Ph.D. Scholarship Programme.

The functional programming language, ranked 69th a year ago, threatens to crash the top 10 in Tiobe's rankings.

Rane Johnson of Microsoft Research is one of five women featured in an article that commemorates International Women's Day, which celebrates women who have and will change the world.

ZooTracer, a desktop tool now available for download from Microsoft Research, can enable the tracing of animal movements via the use of consumer-grade video equipment.

Technology students in Bangalore, India, who are interested in computing research have learned to set their sights on Microsoft Research India.

How can technology stimulate civic discourse and transform neighborhoods into engaged communities? HereHere uses social mechanics and character design to enable neighborhoods to react to what’s happening, just as characters do in games.

Researchers have contributed sophisticated technology to Office Lens, a consumer-friendly mobile app that changes how we capture and store information.

Nataša Pržulj Imperial College London has been awarded the BCS Roger Needham Award for 2014 sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Trapped by helicopter parents and desperate to carve out a space of their own, teens need a place to make mistakes, says danah boyd of Microsoft Research.

Researcher danah boyd talks about teens, identity, and the future of digital communication.

On March 18, Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research was rewarded for his outstanding contributions to computer science when the Association for Computing Machinery announced him as the recipient of computing’s greatest honor, the A.M. Turing Award.

Fresh off his success during the 2014 Oscars, in which he correctly predicted the winner in 21 of the 24 categories, David Rothschild of Microsoft Research is turning his sights toward March Madness, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.

In-memory solutions built from Hekaton, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team, add critical components to SQL Server 2014, which is being released to manufacturing on March 18.

Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research will be hosting the first Music Tech Fest to be held in the United States, March 21-23 at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center.

Microsoft researcher and machine learning expert John Platt says the company is using machine learning to improve products such as Bing.

'Lock-free' parallel algorithms might match the performance of more complex 'wait-free' algorithms.

James Mickens of Microsoft Research wields his prodigious wit to great effect in social settings--and in his research work.

Rane Johnson-Stempson of Microsoft Research Connections discusses Microsoft's Big Dream Movement to help prepare girls for a future in science, technology, engineering, or math.

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