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  • Fast and Flexible: Microsoft and Trinity College
    • Published: 11/6/2009 12:00:00 AM
    Irish universities are getting in on the idea of digitised, interactive libraries, with a new partnership between Trinity College Dublin and Microsoft Research, egineered by Tony Hey, corporate vice president of External Research, setting the tone...
  • Life-Logging Camera Brings New Hope for Memory-Loss Patients
    • Published: 11/5/2009 11:08:00 AM
    A small, wearable camera, produced by Microsoft Research, that captures images automatically could change the way memory loss patients, in particular those with Alzheimer's, are treated, experts say...
  • Microsoft Doubles Down on Links with Japanese Academia
    • Published: 11/5/2009 12:10:00 AM
    Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar long-term plan to deepen its research roots in the country...
  • Making Car Infotainment Simple, Natural
    • Published: 11/4/2009 7:00:00 PM
    Commute UX, a project from the Speech Technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond, is designed to make driving more pleasurable—and less distracting...
  • Usable Security: How to Get It
    • Published: 11/3/2009 1:00:00 AM
    Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? Butler Lampson of Microsoft Research New England says it's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe...
  • RFID-Based Enterprise Intelligence
    • Published: 11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
    SixthSense is a platform for RFID-based enterprise intelligence that combines RFID events with information from other enterprise systems and sensors to automatically make inferences about people, objects, workspaces, and their interactions...
  • Using Mobile Technology to Extend Health Care’s Reach
    • Published: 10/28/2009 12:58:00 PM
    Microsoft Research believes there are abundant opportunities for mobile technologies to improve public health, particularly in underserved communities...
  • Muscle-Bound Computer Interface
    • Published: 10/28/2009 12:01:00 AM
    Collaborators including Microsoft Research have determined that forearm electrodes could enable new forms of hands-free computer interaction...
  • Total Recall: How to Have It All
    • Published: 10/26/2009 9:00:00 AM
    Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, authors of the new book Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything, discuss their attempt to capture an entire life digitally—and its ultimate ramifications...
  • Tony Hey and Citizen Science
    • Published: 10/23/2009 10:00:00 AM
    Tony Hey, in charge of external research for Microsoft, is interested in the impact of digital data across all fields – not just science, but the humanities as well...
  • Human Behavior: the Key to Future Tech Developments
    • Published: 10/22/2009 1:57:00 AM
    Ethnographers like those supported by Microsoft Research can help companies determine what technologies people need...
  • Extreme Computing Opens Up Unlimited Possibilities
    • Published: 10/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
    Dan Reed, Microsoft corporate vice president of the eXtreme Computing Group, discusses the potential offered by parallel programming and cloud infrastructures...
  • Parallelism and the Cloud
    • Published: 10/19/2009 10:43:00 AM
    Cloud computing and parallelism have become a fundamental enabling technology, say Dennis Gannon and Dan Reed of Microsoft Research...
  • Q&A: Carrying Your Life in Your Pocket
    • Published: 10/19/2009 10:39:00 AM
    Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research looks to augment his memory by gathering the many bits of the days of his life...
  • New Book Expands on Jim Gray’s Vision
    • Published: 10/16/2009 7:00:00 AM
    The Fourth Paradigm, a new book elaborating on renowned computer scientist Jim Gray’s vision of a burgeoning era of scientific exploration defined by data-intensive research and new methods of scholarly communication, was published Oct...
  • Jeff Dozier of UCSB's Bren School Wins Microsoft Research's Jim Gray Award
    • Published: 10/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
    Jeff Dozier, a professor and founding dean of UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, has been awarded Microsoft Research's second annual Jim Gray eScience Award...
  • Vicon Signs License Agreement with Microsoft to Develop New Medical Technology
    • Published: 10/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
    Vicon, developer of motion capture products, has signed an intellectual property license agreement with Microsoft allowing Vicon to manufacture and sell devices incorporating Microsoft’s SenseCam technology worldwide...
  • The Future of Computing Gets 'eXtreme'
    • Published: 10/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
    As computing undergoes profound changes, Microsoft's new eXtreme Computing Group stands poised to funnel cutting-edge ideas from Microsoft Research into products developed across the company...
  • Microsoft Creates Social Computing Sandbox
    • Published: 10/8/2009 9:20:00 AM
    Microsoft Research veteran Lili Cheng will head FUSE, a new social computing lab at Microsoft that consolidates three existing efforts...
  • Complexity Work: Simply Success
    • Published: 10/8/2009 6:00:00 AM
    Mark Braverman has found fulfillment during his stint as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England—and he has a series of accolades to prove it...
  • Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench
    • Published: 11/6/2009 12:05:26 AM
    Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench is a set of tools—based on the Windows Workflow Foundation—that addresses scientists’ need for a flexible, powerful way to analyze large, diverse datasets...
  • Z3
    • Published: 10/30/2009 7:44:26 PM
    Z3 is an SMT solver that combines several theory solvers into a combined framework...
  • Research Information Centre Framework
    • Published: 10/26/2009 5:45:02 PM
    The Microsoft Research Information Centre (RIC) Framework is a Web-based platform for research project management and scientific collaboration...
  • CodeContract Tools
    • Published: 10/24/2009 12:03:22 PM
    This download installs the runtime and static checking tools for managed contracts along with Visual Studio integration...
  • Fast subroutines for Matlab programs
    • Published: 10/15/2009 10:26:22 AM
    This library provides highly optimized versions of primitive functions such as repmat, set intersection, and gammaln...
  • Pex - Automated Whitebox Testing for .NET
    • Published: 10/14/2009 11:33:11 AM
    Pex (Program EXploration) is a white-box test generation tool...
  • F7: Refinement Types for F# (2009)
    • Published: 10/13/2009 9:58:10 AM
    F7 is an enhanced type checker for the F# programming language...
  • SIGMA: Large-Scale Machine-Learning Tool Kit
    • Published: 9/17/2009 1:34:07 AM
    The goal of SIGMA is to provide a group of parallel, machine-learning functionalities that can meet the requirements of research work and applications typically with large-scale data or features...
  • Infer.NET 2.3
    • Published: 9/4/2009 6:03:05 AM
    Infer...
  • Dynamics Simulation and Geometric Modeling Using D* Symbolic Differentiation
    • Published: 9/1/2009 2:27:48 PM
    D* is a program for efficiently computing symbolic derivatives...
  • Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ)
    • Published: 8/18/2009 10:10:15 AM
    Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) is a LINQ-like API for writing programs against sensitive data sets, while providing differential privacy guarantees for the underlying records...
  • Fine: A Type-Preserving Compiler for End-to-End Security Verification
    • Published: 8/14/2009 10:43:17 AM
    The Fine compiler implements a type system that enables the enforcement of rich, stateful authorization and information-flow policies to be verified...
  • Surface Extraction from Binary Volumes with Higher-Order Smoothness
    • Published: 8/13/2009 8:40:59 AM
    This code extracts the separating triangulated surface from binary volumes, such as those obtained by 3-D image-segmentation algorithms...
  • Reinforcement-Learning Infrastructure for ‘Civilization IV’
    • Published: 8/4/2009 9:21:49 AM
    Use this learning infrastructure to interface with the “Civilization IV” SDK and game to run and evaluate different reinforcement-learning algorithms and learn AI strategies...
  • Azure Library for Lucene.Net
    • Published: 7/28/2009 2:24:31 PM
    Lucene works on top of an abstract store object called Directory...
  • Microsoft Site Analyzer
    • Published: 7/27/2009 10:43:37 AM
    Our library can support basic features for site analysis, such as site-map building, forum-page structuralization, URL-pattern generation, and page random sampling...
  • MSR Action Data Set
    • Published: 7/24/2009 5:15:04 PM
    This is a data set used for human action-detection experiments...
  • Active Learning for Large Multi-Class Problems
    • Published: 7/21/2009 8:47:42 AM
    This research code is implementation of the scheme proposed in our CVPR paper “Active Learning for Large Multi-Class Problems...
  • PhyloDet
    • Published: 7/16/2009 9:19:08 AM
    PhyloDet is a scalable tree visualization that enables biologists to visualize multiple traits or attributes mapped to large evolutionary trees with thousands of leaf nodes representing the species...
  • HD View 3.3
    • Published: 7/14/2009 12:22:57 PM
    With HD View, you can view and interact with very large images on the Web...