STEM Hero: Looking Up at the Stars and Advancing Curriculum with Curtis Wong
Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research discusses the WorldWide Telescope and Project Tuva, two efforts to make science, technology, engineering, and math more inviting to students.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research: How Fighting Email Spam Is Helping the Search for an HIV...
Microsoft Research is applying high-powered computation to help advance the effort to find a vaccine for HIV.
View ArticleOn World AIDS Day, HIV Research Provides a Ray of Hope
David Heckerman of Microsoft Research discusses his contributiions to the Ragon Institue's efforts to quantify how the immune system attacks various fragments of HIV--which could, one day, lead to a...
View ArticleA Spam Filter for HIV Is in the Works
Could email spam and HIV possibly have anything in common? According to Microsoft researcher David Heckerman, the answer is yes.
View ArticleBook Review: The Future of Looking Back
In his book "The Future of Looking Back," Richard Banks of Microsoft Research Cambridge explores questions of stuff and sentiment, reminiscences and remembering, legacies and memory in our digital age.
View ArticleJim Gray eScience Award Winners Announced
Mark Abbott of Oregon State University was named winner of the 2011 Jim Gray Award, presented by Tony Hey, head of Microsoft Research Connections, in Stockholm on Dec. 5 during the eScience in Action...
View ArticleRFP on Using Technology to Combat Human Trafficking
Microsoft Research Connections is partnering with danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England and the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit to investigate the implications of technology in human trafficking...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Presenting Our New ACM Fellows
Six individuals from Microsoft Research have been named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery.
View ArticleKent Students Learn About Microsoft Careers
Students at Kent-Meridian High School and Mill Creek Middle School in Washington state learned about the relationship between their studies of science, technology, engineering, and math and work...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Microsoft Researchers’ Focus: Eye on Earth
Stephen Emmott and Lucas Joppa of the Computational Science group at Microsoft Research Cambridge will participate in the Eye on Earth Summit, a Dec. 12-15 event in Abu Dhabi organized to ensure...
View ArticleAlexander Szalay Wins Microsoft’s Jim Gray eScience Award
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and computer scientist Alexander Szalay has been recognized by the Microsoft Corp. with a Jim Gray eScience Award.
View ArticleComputer Scientist Martín Abadi Elected 2011 AAAS Fellow
Martín Abadi, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Opening ‘So.cl’ to More Users, Using Search for Social Learning
Microsoft Research has unveiled its “So.cl” network, explaining what it is — and what it isn’t — and expanding the private beta of the service to more students and academics.
View ArticleSo.cl Gives Students a New Way to Learn
An experimental research project from Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs asks students to rethink learning by combining social networking and search.
View ArticleFacebook’s Age Limits Pose a Puzzle for Parents
A Microsoft Research New England study has found that parents often help their under-age children sign up for Facebook.
View ArticleYOW! 2011: Simon Peyton-Jones - Closer to Nirvana
Simon Peyton-Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discusses his contributions to the Haskell functional programming language.
View ArticleNo CS Student Left Behind
Microsoft Research Connections has partnered with the Kent (Wash.) School District to provide ongoing support for students and teachers at the district’s tech academies.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: India’s Cutrell Takes U.N. Assignment
Ed Cutrell of Microsoft Research India is eager to get started with his new role as a member of the advisory board of the International Institute for Software Technology at United Nations University
View ArticleA Fresh Perspective on Internet Security
Microsoft Research Redmond’s Cormac Herley has caused a stir with a provocative take on what really keeps web users safe. (Hint: It isn’t a strong password.)
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Asia: Year in Review
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, reflects back on an active, successful 2011.
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