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	Microsoft Targets Programming Newbies with New Vedea Visualization Language Published: 03/12/2009 07:17:00 a.m. Vedea is a prototype experimental language designed by Microsoft Research Cambridge that is aimed at helping users create interactive infographics, data visualizations, and computational art... Blueprints for Self-Assembly Published: 03/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Researchers are using tools from information theory and computer science to facilitate the automatic creation of nanoscale structures... Researchers Are Working on Ways to Make Encrypted Data Easier to Find Published: 03/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Recent advances in cryptography could mean that future cloud-computing services will not only be able to encrypt documents to keep them safe in the cloud, but also make it possible to search and retrieve this information without first decrypting it... Bing Maps Rolls Out Enhanced Aerial and Street-Level Views Published: 02/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Bing Maps is launching features that give users a new view of the planet, including a streetside and enhanced aerial view stemming in part from work within Microsoft Research... Video: Supernova Interview with danah boyd of Microsoft Research Published: 02/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. danah boyd of Microsoft Research discusses how, while people might share a lot of their information online, often they’re shaping what they hope we’ll perceive about them... Cool-Tether Turns Phones into High-Speed Hotspots Published: 01/12/2009 01:49:00 a.m. Microsoft Research has found a novel way of beating the deplorably slow speeds of mobile broadband, by combining several phones together to make one high-speed hotspot... Embracing Networking Opportunities Published: 30/11/2009 09:00:00 a.m. The Mobility, Networks, and Systems group within Microsoft Research India is engaging in projects that address networking challenges and potential at scales both expansive and intimate... Microsoft's Other Campus Celebrates Year Ten Published: 27/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. The company so firmly associated with Seattle also has a large site in the heart of Silicon Valley... Games for Learning Institute Launches 'Game-a-Week' Feature Published: 24/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. The Games for Learning Institute, a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has launched a Game-of-the-Week feature on http://g4li... Nozzle: Counteracting Memory Exploits Published: 23/11/2009 11:00:00 a.m. Over the past decade, memory exploits have been a common form of computer attack, with heap spraying being the latest in a progression of methods... Microsoft Technology Reduces Network Redundancy Published: 23/11/2009 06:30:00 a.m. Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN... Games for Learning Institute Announces Design Contest for Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Platform Published: 19/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. The Games for Learning Institute, a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has announced the Game Design Challenge to build mini-games for learning on Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 3... Microsoft Cuzz: Fuzz Testing Goes Parallel Published: 18/11/2009 04:12:00 a.m. Maden Musuvathi of Microsoft Research demoed a prototype product called Microsoft Cuzz, shorthand for Concurrent Fuzz testing, during PDC09... PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework Published: 18/11/2009 01:48:00 a.m. DryadLINQ, from Microsoft Research, enables LINQ queries and operations to be run on a distributed clisters of machines... Bendable Magnetic Interface Published: 18/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers... NASA and Microsoft Ask Citizen Scientists to 'Be a Martian' Published: 17/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Built on Microsoft cloud services technologies, NASA’s interactive “citizen-science” Web service lets anyone explore the Red Planet up close, while also contributing to Mars missions... The Use Of Assertions Published: 16/11/2009 01:11:00 p.m. A new study from Microsoft Research shows the power of seeding your code with assertions... Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie Shared Vision for Future of Computing at CUHK on Nov. 16 Published: 16/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft delivered a lecture titled Rethinking Computing at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Nov... Educators That Rock!: danah boyd Published: 13/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England discusses her work with the findingEducation blog... Controller-Free Gaming Published: 12/11/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Project Natal, technology developed in part by Microsoft Research, has been named one of the 50 best inventions of the year by TIME...

	Publications
	Abstract Transformers for Thread Correlation Analysis Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We present a new technique for speeding up static analysis of (shared memory) concurrent programs... Adapting to the Shifting Intent of Search Queries Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent... Application-Aware Prioritization Mechanisms for On-Chip Networks Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are likely to become a critical shared resource in future many-core processors... Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration for High-Performance Regular Expression Searching Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Dynamic reconfiguration can be necessary to produce fast and flexible FPGA-based applications... Automatic Semantic Parsing of CT Scans via Multiple Randomized Decision Trees Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We introduce a new, efficient algorithm for the automatic detection and localization of anatomical structures within 3D CT images... Collocated social practices surrounding photos Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Cool-Tether: Energy Efficient On-the-fly WiFi Hot-spots using Mobile Phones Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We consider the problem of providing ubiquitous yet affordable Internet connectivity to devices at home, at work, and on the move... Discovering Excitatory Networks from Discrete Event Streams with Applications to Neuronal Spike Train Analysis Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Mining temporal network models from discrete event streams is an important problem with applications in many domains like computational neuroscience, physical plant diagnostics, and human-computer interaction modeling... Distribution-Calibrated Hierarchical Classification Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Execution Anomaly Detection in Distributed Systems through Unstructured Log Analysis Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Detection of execution anomalies is very important for the maintenance, development, and performance refinement of large scale distributed systems... Interactive Geodesic Segmentation of n-Dimensional Medical Images on the Graphics Processor Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. This paper presents a new, parallel segmentation algorithm which enables radiologists to separate a region of interest from 2D or 3D images accurately and efficiently... Learning in the Deep-Structured Conditional Random Fields Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We have proposed the deep-structured conditional random fields (CRFs) for sequential labeling and classification recently... MDCube: A High Performance Network Structure for Modular Data Center Interconnection Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Shipping-container-based data centers have been introduced as building blocks for constructing mega-data centers... Multi-PIE Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Proofs of Storage from Homomorphic Identification Protocols Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. Refining Abstract Interpretation-based Static Analyses with Hints Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. The existing approaches for refining static analyses focus on the refinement either of the elements of abstract domains or of the transfer functions... RenderAnts: Interactive Reyes Rendering on GPUs Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We present RenderAnts, the first system that enables interactive REYES rendering on GPUs... Symbolic Query Exploration Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We study the problem of generating a database and parameters for a given parameterized SQL query satisfying a given test condition... ThunderDome: Discovering Upload Constraints Using Decentralized Bandwidth Tournaments Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems... Traffic management and resource allocation in small wired/wireless networks Published: 01/12/2009 12:00:00 a.m. We consider the problem of traffic management in small networks with both wireless and wired devices, connected to the Internet through a single gateway...

	Downloads
	Bulk-Synchronous GPU Programming Compiler Published: 22/11/2009 04:42:11 a.m. This is a compiler for the Bulk-Synchronous GPU Programming (BSGP) language... ORTC Sample Code Published: 18/11/2009 12:47:12 p.m. We provide sample code implementing the algorithm described in our 1999 paper “Optimal Compression of IP Routing Tables... Dryad and DryadLINQ Academic Release Published: 17/11/2009 01:56:15 p.m. Dryad is a high-performance, general-purpose, distributed-computing engine that simplifies the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of computers running a Windows® operating system... Z3 Published: 12/11/2009 04:33:45 p.m. Z3 is an SMT solver that combines several theory solvers into a combined framework... Infer.NET 2.3 Published: 12/11/2009 10:13:20 a.m. Infer... SCARF: A Segmental CRF Speech-Recognition Tool Kit Published: 12/11/2009 09:57:07 a.m. SCARF is a tool kit for recognizing speech with segmental conditional random fields... Pex - Automated Whitebox Testing for .NET Published: 12/11/2009 01:14:13 a.m. Pex (Program EXploration) is a white-box test generation tool... Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench Published: 06/11/2009 12:05:26 a.m. 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... Research Information Centre Framework Published: 26/10/2009 05:45:02 p.m. The Microsoft Research Information Centre (RIC) Framework is a Web-based platform for research project management and scientific collaboration... CodeContract Tools Published: 24/10/2009 12:03:22 p.m. This download installs the runtime and static checking tools for managed contracts along with Visual Studio integration... Fast subroutines for Matlab programs Published: 15/10/2009 10:26:22 a.m. This library provides highly optimized versions of primitive functions such as repmat, set intersection, and gammaln... F7: Refinement Types for F# (2009) Published: 13/10/2009 09:58:10 a.m. F7 is an enhanced type checker for the F# programming language... SIGMA: Large-Scale Machine-Learning Tool Kit Published: 17/09/2009 01:34:07 a.m. 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... Social Web Experience Published: 14/09/2009 09:43:04 a.m. The Social Web Experience browser plug-in analyzes Web pages to identify key topics on the current page and match them with relevant conversations and other content from the user's social network... Dynamics Simulation and Geometric Modeling Using D* Symbolic Differentiation Published: 01/09/2009 02:27:48 p.m. D* is a program for efficiently computing symbolic derivatives... Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) Published: 18/08/2009 10:10:15 a.m. 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: 14/08/2009 10:43:17 a.m. 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: 13/08/2009 08:40:59 a.m. 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: 04/08/2009 09:21:49 a.m. 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: 28/07/2009 02:24:31 p.m. Lucene works on top of an abstract store object called Directory...