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Windows Azure for Research gets sociable

November 13, 2013
I would like to invite you to participate in the new Windows Azure for Research social media sites on LinkedIn and Twitter. These are where you’ll find information on Microsoft Research Connections’ initiative for helping the worldwide research community take advantage of cloud computing’s computational…
  1. Windows Azure for Research gets sociable 

    November 13, 2013

    I would like to invite you to participate in the new Windows Azure for Research social media sites on LinkedIn and Twitter. These are where you’ll find information on Microsoft Research Connections’ initiative for helping the worldwide research community take advantage of cloud computing’s computational…

  2. Using Fuel Cells to Make Data Centers More Efficient, More Sustainable 

    November 12, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   Data centers are playing an increasingly important role in powering 21st-century computing, and that trend seems likely to intensify over the foreseeable future. One of the keys to making data centers efficient is to improve their rate of availability,…

  3. Bringing the cloud to researchers around the world and online 

    November 11, 2013

    These have been impressive days for European research, highlighted by last year’s discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and this year’s publication of the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Both are stunning examples of thousands of researchers collaborating to…

  4. Chinese University Presents Rashid with Special Honor 

    November 6, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   On four occasions over the past 30 years, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has presented honorary doctoral degrees to esteemed individuals.Such recognition, which requires national accreditation, is conferred to honor a distinguished visitor’s contributions to…

  5. ChronoZoom challenge: visualize history and win 

    November 6, 2013

    I love my job! Why? Because, as manager of Games for Learning and Digital Humanities at Microsoft Research Connections, I get to explore four of my favorite things: games, art, technology, and education. This week is especially exciting for me, because yesterday, we launched the…

  6. Windows Azure for Research Award winners 

    November 5, 2013

    Microsoft Research is pleased to announce the successful applicants in our first round of Windows Azure for Research awards. You didn’t make it easy for us—we received many good quality proposals. Our selection committee evaluated each submission in terms of its potential to accelerate research…

  7. Fellowships awarded to top Asian PhD students 

    November 4, 2013

    On November 2, 2013, the spotlight shone brightly on 10 PhD candidates from nine top Asian universities as they were introduced to an appreciative crowd of 1,500 in the Grand Theatre in Hefei, China. On stage, these scholars received medals that signified their selection as…

  8. Conquering Distributed Challenges 

    November 4, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   Distributed computing can be a fiendishly difficult endeavor. Its benefits are manifest: Such systems pass messages across a series of computing devices connected to a network, and those devices interact efficiently to achieve results beyond the capability of any…

  9. Jim Gray would be proud 

    November 1, 2013

    The timing couldn’t have been better. I had come to Bethesda, Maryland, to present Dr. David Lipman, M.D., director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), with the seventh annual Jim Gray eScience Award. David was selected for his contribution to the development of…

  10. Rashid on the Value of Research 

    November 1, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   Once again, for the second year in a row, Rick Rashid delivered a bravura performance during his opening keynote address of Microsoft Research Asia’s 15th Computing in the 21st Century Conference.Last year, during the same event, he closed his…

  11. Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 2 

    October 30, 2013

    Today, we have the second part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—second up, Stewart Tansley: When Microsoft Research shipped the first official Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) beta in June 2011, it was both an ending and…

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