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  1. 2014 Microsoft Research Awards for SEIF announced 

    April 4, 2014

    With the announcement of the 2014 winners of the Microsoft Research Awards for the Software Engineering Innovations Foundation (SEIF), I can’t help but reflect on the depth and breadth of research supported by Microsoft Research. Over the past few years, SEIF has not only sponsored…

  2. Microsoft Research Puts Its Stamp on NSDI ’14 

    April 3, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies Among the many activities that occupy a research scientist, participation in conferences focused on an individual’s fields of interest ranks high. They represent an opportunity to meet with colleagues, get up to speed with what others are doing, and share some…

  3. Workshop launches joint research center in Spain 

    April 3, 2014

    With labs around the globe, Microsoft Research is ideally positioned to partner with leading academic and research institutes worldwide. One of the latest examples of this international cooperation is the Madrid Joint Research Center, a collaborative venture between Microsoft Research and the IMDEA Software Institute. Now…

  4. Getting back to first principles with eScience in the Cloud workshop 

    April 1, 2014

    As I prepare for the upcoming eScience in the Cloud workshop, I keeping coming back to what might sound like an obvious statement—even in these times when we’re trying to tackle hugely complex issues, like understanding climate change, and we are coping with heterogeneous data…

  5. New online Windows Azure training for researchers 

    March 28, 2014

    The global Windows Azure for Research program has been going strong for almost six months, and we’ve been delighted by the response from the researchers around the world who have eagerly attended our in-person training events. Today, we are pleased to announce an online version…

  6. Inviting girls to dream big 

    March 24, 2014

    On March 8, we celebrated International Women’s Day. Every year on this date, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. Women's equality has made positive gains, but plenty of inequality still exists. International Women's Day commemorates the…

  7. Intersection of Music, Technology Can Be Found in Cambridge, Mass. 

    March 21, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies What do musicians and computer scientists have in common?More than you might think.“If you think about it,” Nancy Baym says, “almost everything musicians do is technologically mediated—their instruments are technologies, they manipulate the sound with technologies, they sing through microphones that…

  8. The New Blink: Better than Ever 

    March 20, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies Earlier this month, members of the Interactive Visual Media (IVM) group received a most welcome email from John Ransier, who handles app management for Microsoft Research.The email reported that IVM’s Blink app had just been downloaded for the millionth time. It…

  9. Helping SQL Server Rev Up to Full Speed 

    March 18, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies As SQL Server 2014 is released to manufacturing on March 18, one of the features that will be bolstering the new release, to be available to customers on April 1, are its in-memory solutions built directly into the product. These…

  10. Next for Rothschild: Bringing Rationality to March Madness 

    March 18, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies March Madness, they call it, but David Rothschild is taking things to new extremes.Rothschild, an economist from Microsoft Research New York City, has been making a name for himself in the past few years. In 2012, he correctly predicted 50…

  11. 2014 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced 

    February 28, 2014

    Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to announce the selected PhD projects for 2014. The selection process was…

  12. Select Students’ Summer Plans: Big Apple, Big Data 

    February 27, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Today’s burgeoning interest in big data offers tremendous potential for driving services that promise to transform our future. That promise, though, doesn’t come without significant effort.Harnessing the power of big data requires an unprecedented understanding of complex systems. Scalable computational…