Do You Abuse Your Keyboard and Mouse When Stressed? Microsoft Researcher Says...
A Microsoft Research team led by Mary Czerwinski has examined when computer users are stressed and pound on their keyboards and mice, with the goal of developing computing systems that can help...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Susan Dumais ’75 Is a Big Reason Why, Computer-Wise, You Find...
The next time you get a good answer from a web search, you can thank Susan Dumais ’75.
View ArticleWomen Around the World Hack for Good
The next generation of women leaders in computing band together to discuss the way forward.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Head of Research Opens Up About Google X, Windows 9, and the Future
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, discusses a variety of subjects, including Google X and how his researchers are helping to define the future of computing.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Head of Research Opens Up About Google X, Windows 9, and the Future
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, discusses a variety of subjects, including Google X and how his researchers are helping to define the future of computing.
View ArticleA Little Look at Big Data: Microsoft Research NYC Opens Up for a Visit
On May 5, in New York’s Flatiron District, Microsoft Research New York City opened its doors to give the world a glimpse of what its data scientists are up to.
View ArticleComputer Science Takes Center Stage in Chile
More than 250 thought gathered in Viña del Mar, Chile, on May 7 for the first day of the Microsoft Research Latin American Faculty Summit 2014.
View ArticleHow Facebook, Twitter, and Bing Are Giving Researchers the Perfect Guinea Pig...
Vast amounts of data and insane computational power are transforming what we know about how people interact with each other, but social scientists are trying to refine methods for coping with the deluge.
View ArticleStuck on Picking a World Cup Winner? Data Analytics Has the Answer
David Rothschild of Microsoft Research, is an economist interested in how markets develop over time regarding events from the World Cup to the U.S. presidential elections.
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Let Employees Vote on an Open Office?
You might hate your open office--or love it. But does enough of your office agree with you?
View ArticleNetworked and Distributed at SBRC
The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems covered just about every current issue related to those fields.
View ArticleWhat If Coding Were a Game?
Code Hunt, a browser-based game for those interested in learning to code, makes it fun to explore coding solutions.
View ArticleThe Warm Heart of Chile Embraces TouchDevelop and the Lab of Things
Representatives from Microsoft Research and leading Chilean universities discussed their shared interest in innovative software technologies in early May.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research-Inria Joint Centre: Inventing Today, Tomorrow’s World
On May 19, Microsoft Research and Inria, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, renewed their commitment to continue collaborating at the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint...
View ArticleA Hackathon Designed By Women, for Women, to Solve the Gender Gap
Some programming events have become so male-centric that they don't even have women's bathrooms. The International Women’s Hackathon looks to get more women coding in a friendlier environment--while...
View ArticleSummit Spurs Interest in Science for Minority Teens
The program designed to introduce children of color to tech and math comes to Portland.
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon, Microsoft Research Automate Privacy Compliance for Big Data...
A team from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research has shown that it is possible to automate compliance checks to ensure that millions of lines of code in Web-scale systems operate in ways...
View ArticleGeneral Agreement
Leslie Lamport's contribution of logical clocks has had profound effects on the evolution of distributed systems and led, in part, to his being named the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
View ArticleEnabling Cross-Lingual Conversations in Real Time
Machine-translation efforts at Microsoft are contributing an app for Skype that enables real-time conversations that break down language barriers.
View ArticleSolve the Big Data Problems of the Future: Join Microsoft Research’s Naiad...
Michael Isard, Derek Murray, and Frank McSherry of Microsoft discuss Naiad, an open-source, .NET-based platform for high-throughput, low-latency data analysis.
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