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Microsoft Research support for climate change studies 

March 19, 2014
Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate Data award program, which offers scientists and decision-makers 12 months…

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  1. Microsoft Research support for climate change studies 

    March 19, 2014

    Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate Data award program, which offers scientists and decision-makers 12 months…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. Leslie Lamport Receives Turing Award 

    March 18, 2014

    Leslie Lamport first began dabbling in computers while he was still in high school. Nothing too unusual about that—until you consider that this was in the mid-1950s. Lamport was attending the Bronx High School of Science in New York, and he and a friend used…

  5. Office Lens Is a Snap 

    March 17, 2014

    The moment mobile-phone manufacturers added cameras to their devices, they stopped being just mobile phones. Not only have lightweight phone cameras made casual photography easy and spontaneous, they also have changed the way we record our lives. Now, with help from Microsoft Research, the Office…

  6. Let’s HereHere It for NYC 

    March 10, 2014

    If any city can be called opinionated, it would be New York City, so it’s somehow inevitable that HereHere is making its debut in the Big Apple. It’s Friday in Manhattan, and despite reports of several broken parking meters on its streets, the Upper West…

  7. ZooTracer: Setting a Track Record 

    March 5, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies People love to watch animals. That’s why zoos exist. That’s why photographic safaris command princely sums. That’s why cat videos have become an unstoppable force. Lucas Joppa loves to watch animals, too, but his motivation includes an additional dimension. A scientist…

  8. 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…

  9. ChronoZoom and zombies head to SXSWedu 

    February 27, 2014

    Microsoft Research and Zombie-Based Learning @ SXSWedu I can’t believe how much has happened in just one year. This time last year, we had just released the beta version of ChronoZoom, and the content and development community had created two mini-releases on their own. Key…

  10. 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…

  11. Chatting with the Author of ‘It’s Complicated’ 

    February 25, 2014

    On Feb. 25, Yale University Press released the highly anticipated new book by danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, titled It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. As one of the world’s pre-eminent authorities on social media, particularly teenagers’ social-media…

  12. An Early Peek into the Oscars’ Envelopes 

    February 20, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies It’s mid-February, and the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards have been public for a month. Fans are scrambling to watch all the nominated films they can find. Film buffs debate the talents of Blanchett and Bullock until closing time.…

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