Station Q: 2012 in Review
Michael Freedman, managing director of Station Q, takes a look back at a productive year.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research New York City: 2012 in Review
Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New York City, takes a look back at a productive year.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Silicon Valley: 2012 in Review
Roy Levin, managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, takes a look back at a productive year.
View ArticleeXtreme Computing Group: 2012 in Review
Surajit Chaudhuri, managing director of the eXtreme Computing Group, takes a look back at a productive year.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Redmond: 2012 in Review
Eric Horvitz and Yi-Min Wang, managing co-directors of Microsoft Research Redmond, take a look back at a productive year.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Does Cloud-Offloaded GPS
GPS reduces battery life in a smartphone or tablet, a problem that has challenged a team led by principal researcher Jie Liu at Microsoft Research.
View ArticleRallying Women to STEM Careers
Microsoft Research Connections helped to support the Dec. 1 TEDxWomenSouthLakeUnion event in Seattle to encourage women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, or math.
View ArticleOur Top 10 Blogs of 2012
Here are the top 10 Microsoft Research Connections blog posts of 2012.
View ArticleThe Future According to Microsoft
Exploring Microsoft's research labs, with projects to improve gesture recognition and eliminate blue-screen errors.
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Xbox Tries Turning the Entire Living Room Into a Videogame
A Microsoft Research project, called IllumiRoom, was unveiled during CES, using projectors to overlay images from the TV screen to all of the walls in the room.
View ArticleHot Hires: Mathematicians Coming of Age to Become the Most Sought-After...
As mathematical techniques improve, many day-to-day problems are being solved mathematically, thereby helping companies and governments take better decisions and forecast trends more accurately.
View ArticleTwitter: the Safest Place for Citizen Journalists in Mexico
A team from Microsoft Research has published a paper analyzing the use of Twitter for reports about drug-cartel violence in Mexico.
View ArticleCall for Participation: Microsoft Research India Presents 'The Whodunit?...
To understand how people will collaborate in an era of varied ICTs, where countries like India have huge mobile phone penetration, Microsoft Research India will launch the Whodunit? Challenge on Feb. 1.
View ArticlePossessed Furniture: Inside Microsoft's U.K. Research lab
BBC News took a look around Microsoft's research center in Cambridge to see how the company is experimenting with its own invention, the Kinect.
View ArticleTry F#—Data Console to Big and Broad Data
The latest version of Try F#, a set of resources that makes it easy to learn and program with F# in a browser, was released on Jan. 22.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Programming Languages in the Eternal City
Microsoft Research will have a robust presence in Rome from Jan. 20-26 during the 40th annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
View ArticleMicrosoft India Launches Hub for Computer-Science Research
Microsoft Research India announced the debut of Research Connector, a community research portal, during the annual TechVista symposium.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Virtual Ecosystem Aims to Simulate the Entire World
Microsoft Research is embarking on a highly ambitious project: a computational model of an entire ecosystem, from the soil itself to the creatures that live on it.
View ArticleMicrosoft: Grasping Touch in Enterprise Productivity
The future could see touch gestures move beyond use in games and casual consumption to more applicability in business-productivity tasks such as executing commands on data sets by finger-drawing symbols.
View ArticleWhy We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses
Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, an expert on distributed systems, provides his opinion on writing software code.
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