Posted by Rob Knies A few months ago, I got a chance to talk with Thore Graepel of Microsoft Research Cambridge about Project Waterloo, a Facebook game that is part of the Research Games project exploring behavioral game theory at a global scale.Now, Graepel and…
Scientists can agree that there’s a lot of data out there, and that we could be using it more efficiently. Now the White House has asked for input on how to do just that. Data from scientific research is important to a diverse array of…
Posted by Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research New England We’re thrilled to announce that three leading researchers will be joining danah boyd and the social-media research team at Microsoft Research New England, based in Cambridge, Mass. Microsoft Research…
Posted by Rob Knies For Moshe Tennenholtz, just named the winner of the 2012 Autonomous Agents Research Award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), things just keep getting better.“I think we are living in an exciting time,” says…
Posted by Peter Lee, managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond  The last in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Peter Lee of Microsoft Research Redmond. Given that this was my first full calendar year at the…
Posted by Surajit Chaudhuri, managing director of the eXtreme Computing Group The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Surajit Chaudhuri of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG). It has been just more than six months…
Posted by Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Lili Cheng of FUSE Labs. We just launched So.cl, our latest research experiment, which blends search and social networking. For…
Posted by Roy Levin, managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Roy Levin of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Microsoft Research (MSR) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary,…
Recaps of the top 10 news stories of the year—it’s a New Year’s tradition that rivals Dick Clark’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” show. So who are we to buck convention? Therefore, without further ado, here are the top 10 Microsoft Research Connections blogs of 2011,…
Posted by Andrew Blake, managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Andrew Blake from Microsoft Research Cambridge.It’s been quite a year, not least because it was my…
Posted by Hussein Salama, director of Advanced Technology Labs Cairo The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Hussein Salama from Advanced Technology Labs Cairo. This has been an incredible year for our lab…
Posted by Adi Diamant, director of Advanced Technology Labs Israel The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Adi Diamant of Advanced Technology Labs Israel. Advanced Technology Labs Israel (ATL Israel), our newest addition to the…
