I recently sponsored an event in Manizales, Colombia, training biologists on .NET Bio and BioHPC, two projects that make computational research easier in the life sciences. As part of the training, Jarek Pillardy—the head of the Cornell Bioinformatics Facility (CBSU) at Cornell University—and some of…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Location, location, location. Yu Zheng, lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, is all about location-based services. Now, his research into urban computing has led him into a pretty exclusive neighborhood.On Aug. 21, Zheng was named to MIT Technology Review’s TR35,…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies More than a century ago, 641 Sixth Ave., a Beaux-Arts high-rise in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, housed Simpson, Crawford & Simpson, known for a while as the most elegant department store in New York City.On Aug. 19, this historic 1902 landmark,…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies So, if you’re writing a book called On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close is Close Enough, how exactly do you start?You could start by providing an overview…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies To hear George Varghese tell it, his research career got off to a rather inauspicious debut.“I wasn’t exactly a shining star when I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,” he says. “I was hardly the one who would have…
Sixty students from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa participated in the 2013 PhD Summer School at Microsoft Research Cambridge. The beginning of July is always a special time of year at Microsoft Research Cambridge as we welcome PhD students to our annual PhD Summer…
Today, women earn more than half of all undergraduate degrees in U.S. colleges and universities. But according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), female students remain woefully underrepresented in computer science programs, earning only 18 percent of the undergraduate computer science…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Had your hair cut lately? Most of us probably can answer that one affirmatively. Use a brush or comb? Well, yeah, of course. Does your hair blow in the wind? Only when it’s windy.Such simplistic questions might have you scratching…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies With today’s mobile devices, users can find shooting high-definition video as easy as snapping a photograph. That should mean, before long, that preserving and sharing bursts of video might become as commonplace as the current practice of exchanging still images.That’s…
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013—the fourteenth edition of this annual event—is now history, but I’m still catching my breath after two days of meeting and sharing ideas with some of the world’s foremost computer scientists. In attendance were more than 400 representatives of academic…
I enjoy being able to work in technology because it has the potential for great impact in a range of research areas. But, more specifically, I have the privilege to work with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil to achieve that goal. Together,…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies On June 18, Adam Marcus and Daniel A. Spielman of Yale University, along with Nikhil Srivastava of Microsoft Research India, announced a proof of the Kadison-Singer conjecture, a question about the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. Ten days later, they…
