Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Roy Levin, a Microsoft distinguished engineer and managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, discusses Microsoft's decision to make the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows publicly accessible.

Rane Johnson-Stempson of Microsoft Research told an audience at Rutgers University that having women working in computer science is important for bringing diverse perspectives to engineering.

Microsoft Research is now offening an online version of its Windows Azure for Research program.

Security and privacy need to be prioritized by the manufacturers of home-automation devices, say two Microsoft researchers and a doctoral student from Carnegie Mellon University.

Microsoft researchers will present a broad variety of papers during the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.

Microsoft Research Connections will host aneScience in the Cloud 2014 workshop April 29-30 in Redmond, Wash.

David Rothschild of Microsoft Research discusses how predictive science is being used today and how he expects it to be used in the not-too-distant future.

The Technology and Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India is helping to create India's first information repository on autism and has begun an autism-awareness campaigh in 10 Indian languages.

Microsoft Research and the IMDEA Software Institute are collaborating on advances in verification, programming languages, and securitiy, as evidenced in a workshop being held in Madrid from April 2 to 4.

Teens and tweeters take note: Microsoft researchers and Windows Phone engineers have collaborated to set a Guinness World Record® for fastest texting on a mobile device.

Proposals from 30 countries around the world were submitted for the 2014 Microsoft Research Awards for the Software Engineering Innovations Foundation, announced April 4.

Machine learning and artificial language are the key to some of Microsoft's future explorations, say Harry Shum, head of technology and research, and Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research.

A Microsoft Research project brings human-computer interaction to the next level.

Seny Kamara of Microsoft Research says cryptography tools could be used inside intelligence agencies to make data repositories and search resistant to misuse.

Microsoft Research has launched or renewed partnerships at joint research centers in Spain, Russia, and France.

Microsoft Research and Inria have chosen to extend their history of seven years of effective collaboration for another three years in an ongoing quest to deliver significant scientific impact.

Contrary to popular belief that baby photos seem to dominate Facebook feeds, Meredith Ringel Morris of Microsoft Research has demonstrated that new mothers actually post less after giving birth.

Five pioneering collaborations between Microsoft Research and academia in China demonstrate the immense value of using Microsoft Azure in scientific research.

Teenagers' online behavior is one of the main areas of research for danah boyd of Microsot Research, who explores the topic in It's Complicated: The Social Lives oif Networked Teens."

The Microsoft Azure for Research program from Microsoft Research helps researchers harness the power of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, to help scientifics researchers learn to take advantage of cloud computing.

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