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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…

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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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.…

  6. Learn to tell stories with data at the Excel for Research webinar 

    February 20, 2014

    We hear a lot these days about “data science,” but what is it, exactly? Data collection, data management, data wrangling, big data, broad data—these are all pieces of the data-science puzzle. One view is that data science is all about telling stories—with data. However, the…

  7. Bing Code Search Makes Developers More Productive 

    February 17, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Some people, it seems, are simply born to be computer-science researchers.Take Youssef Hamadi, for example. Earlier this week, he was asked a question about challenges he had encountered during a research project. His response began by sharing this revealing nugget:“As…

  8. Grants and scholarships promote women’s participation in computing 

    February 14, 2014

    As many of you know—especially if you’ve been reading my blog posts—the participation of women in computer science continues to decline. Last year, women accounted for only 14 percent of computer science college graduates in the United States, according to the Computing Research Association. That’s…

  9. LampsonFest: Celebrating a Computing Legend 

    February 13, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies It’s a mouthful. The citation for the A.M. Turing Award presented to Butler Lampson 22 years ago reads as follows: For contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming…

  10. Microsoft Research Sends 3 to CHI Academy 

    February 11, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies  Each year, SIGCHI, the international society for professionals, academics, and students interested in human technology and human-computer interaction (HCI), announces a short list of individuals who have been elected to the CHI Academy. You might wonder: How are the recipients notified?…

  11. Building cloud virtual machines for research 

    February 7, 2014

    As regular readers of this blog know, the Windows Azure for Research program recurrently solicits proposals on the use of Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform, in scholarly research. Winning projects receive a one-year allocation of Windows Azure storage and compute resources. We review these proposals…

  12. Buxton, Han on Channel 9: Friends Swapping Stories 

    February 5, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies “3-D printing’s been around for years and years and years. That was called milling machines and, later on, stereolithography, but the cost has changed by orders of magnitude, which makes it possible—just as lower cost made personal computers become accessible.…

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