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View ArticleRefusing Facebook Has Social Cost
People who choose not to use Facebook, cellphones or other technological tools may pay a hefty social price, says Alice Marwick of Microsoft Research New England.
View ArticleSpeech Recognition Leaps Forward
Automatic speech recognition makes a major advance thanks to researchers from Microsoft Research who have taken a new approach using artificial neural networks.
View ArticleSerious Play Conference 2011: Microsoft's 'Productivity Games'
Donald Brinkman of Microsoft Research Connections discussed Productivity Games during the Serious Play Conference, held Aug. 23-25 in Redmond, Wash.
View ArticleHow Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
Building 99 on Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus hosts pure research and cutting-edge engineering that stirs the imagination.
View ArticleLatin American Workshop Explores Research Challenges and Collaboration...
Fifty Latin American researchers and former Microsoft Research interns and fellows gathered in July to participate in the LATAM Workshop to share research challenges and opportunities.
View ArticleQ&A With the F# Team
Visual Studio Magazine recently got a chance to have a chat with Don Syme, creator of the F# programming language.
View ArticleVideo: Buxton on Human-Computer Interaction
Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research discusses human-computer interaction with MSNBC as part of its Future of Technology series.
View ArticleUSB 3.0, Microsoft Research and Zing
Zing, a project from Microsoft Research, analyzes the approach needed to build USB 3.0 support in Windows.
View ArticleSEIF Project Crystal Receives ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Professor David Notkin and his colleagues at the University of Washington were the recipients of a 2011 SEIF award for their proposal, “Speculation and Continuous Validation for Software Development.”
View ArticleMicrosoft F# Hits All the Right Notes with Programmers
Microsoft Research’s F# functional language has cracked the TIOBE Index of the top 20 most popular programming languages.
View ArticleProject Hawaii XAPFest 2011 Awards Hawaiian Trip to Windows Phone App Contest...
Julia Schwartz from Carnegie Mellon University has won the grand prize in Microsoft Research Connections' XAPFest, which encouraged Microsoft interns to build Windows Phone apps using Project Hawaii...
View ArticleNew Award Honors Distinguished Artifact
Jérôme Vouillon of CNRS and Roberto Di Cosmo of Université Paris Diderot and INRIA were named the winners of the inaugural Microsoft Research Distinguished Artifact Award.
View ArticleF# 3.0 Developer Preview Now Available!
The Visual Studio F# team announced a preview release of F# 3.0 as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview during the BUILD conference.
View ArticleElsevier Announces New Editor-in-Chief for Computer Languages, Systems &...
Nick Benton of Microsoft Research Cambridge succeeds Bala Kalyanasundaram.
View ArticleIdentifying Genetic Factors in Disease with Big Data
Microsoft Research Connections has written an algorithm for genome-wide association studies that scale linearly to enable false-positive filtering in large data sets to enable researchers to correlate...
View ArticleFun with TouchDevelop, an IDE for Windows Phone 7
A reviewer for TechRepublic raves about TouchDevelop, an integrated development environment for Windows Phone 7.
View ArticleLatin American Workshop Explores Research Challenges and Collaboration...
Researchers and former Microsoft Research interns and fellows gathered in Redmond, Wash., in July for the LATAM Workshop, a chance to share research challenges and seek collaborative opportunites.
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s Kinect Contributions
One year after the launch of Kinect, two researchers from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley recall their participation in the work that brought this groundbreaking product to market.
View ArticleParallel Processing Software Gets a Boost in Barcelona
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Microsoft Research Centre celebrates its fifth anniversary of producing code to make it easy for programmers to develop parallel-processing software.
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