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Jammin’ with Cloud-Enabled Apps 

October 25, 2012
Are you a student looking to win a little extra spending money? Or maybe just get some props for your coding chops? If so, you’ll want to enter your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app in the Project Hawaii Mobile Code Jam Challenge. But you’d…

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  1. Jammin’ with Cloud-Enabled Apps 

    October 25, 2012

    Are you a student looking to win a little extra spending money? Or maybe just get some props for your coding chops? If so, you’ll want to enter your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app in the Project Hawaii Mobile Code Jam Challenge. But you’d…

  2. Zeta: Scheduling Interactive Services with Partial Execution 

    October 17, 2012

    Posted by Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, and James Larus, Microsoft Research; and Chenyu Yan, Microsoft Sharing a resource, such as a computer processor or disk drive, requires the system to make decisions about which user’s task gets to use the resource and for how long.…

  3. ChronoZoom Receives Digital Education Achievement Award 

    October 17, 2012

    Many of you have heard me talk passionately about ChronoZoom over the past year, especially about our goal to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities through this amazing open-source tool, which strives to capture the history of everything. I love the amazing breadth…

  4. Rashid to Talk Technology at Computer History Museum 

    October 16, 2012

    Posted by Rob Knies   On Oct. 16 in Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum will host a conversation between Rick Rashid, Microsoft chief research officer and worldwide head of Microsoft Research, and John Markoff of The New York Times. For 90 minutes, beginning…

  5. Finding Truths in Chicago 

    October 16, 2012

    I have just returned from the ninth annual Microsoft eScience Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2012 IEEE International Conference on eScience, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. As in previous years, the Microsoft workshop focused on exploring where we are now and what future progress…

  6. Theorem Proof Gains Acclaim 

    October 11, 2012

    By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research At 5:46 p.m. on Sept. 20, Georges Gonthier, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, sent a brief email to his colleagues at the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre in Paris. It read, in full: “This is really the End.”…

  7. Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Honored by White House 

    October 11, 2012

    On Monday, September 24, I got the thrill of a lifetime. I was a guest of the White House at the UN Head of State Reception, where I had the great honor of meeting President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. I was also excited…

  8. 2012 Jim Gray Award Honors Antony John Williams 

    October 10, 2012

    It seems like only yesterday that the eScience team at Microsoft Research came up with the idea of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of data-intensive computing with an award named in memory of Jim Gray. Jim was a man of vision. The breadth and…

  9. Try Try F# 

    October 9, 2012

    We’re happy to announce that the beta release of the new Try F#  has arrived! We’re proud of this new release, and with good reason: Try F# makes programming in F# 3.0 easy to learn, simple to use, and straightforward to share—all through the browser.…

  10. Big Data Blows into the Windy City 

    October 8, 2012

    This week, the annual Microsoft eScience Workshop is being held in Chicago (the “Windy City”), providing an unparalleled opportunity for domain scientists, researchers, and technologists to discuss the benefits and difficulties of incorporating more computing and information technology into the scientific process. Over the years,…

  11. Intuitive UIs Featured During UIST 2012 

    October 8, 2012

    By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research From Oct. 7 to 10 in Cambridge, Mass., Microsoft researchers attending UIST 2012—the 25th Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology—will be sharing projects and ideas with an international gathering of scientists and practitioners focused…

  12. Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS 

    October 5, 2012

    By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of…

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