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Big Advances in Data-Center Networking 

August 12, 2013
These are exciting times for networking researchers. New developments in data-center networking—and the new efficiencies those advances offer—are making this one of the hottest fields in computing. Major figures in networking and communications research gather in Hong Kong from August 12 to 16 for SIGCOMM…

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  1. Big Advances in Data-Center Networking 

    August 12, 2013

    These are exciting times for networking researchers. New developments in data-center networking—and the new efficiencies those advances offer—are making this one of the hottest fields in computing. Major figures in networking and communications research gather in Hong Kong from August 12 to 16 for SIGCOMM…

  2. Math, Engineering … and a Touch of Humor 

    August 9, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   So, if you’re writing a book called On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close is Close Enough, how exactly do you start?You could start by providing an overview…

  3. Researcher Varghese Captures IEEE Kobayashi Award 

    August 5, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies To hear George Varghese tell it, his research career got off to a rather inauspicious debut.“I wasn’t exactly a shining star when I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,” he says. “I was hardly the one who would have…

  4. PhD students convene in Cambridge for 2013 Summer School 

    August 2, 2013

    Sixty students from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa participated in the 2013 PhD Summer School at Microsoft Research Cambridge. The beginning of July is always a special time of year at Microsoft Research Cambridge as we welcome PhD students to our annual PhD Summer…

  5. Inspiring girls about computing 

    July 31, 2013

    Today, women earn more than half of all undergraduate degrees in U.S. colleges and universities. But according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), female students remain woefully underrepresented in computer science programs, earning only 18 percent of the undergraduate computer science…

  6. Digital Hair Manipulation Gets Dynamic 

    July 23, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Had your hair cut lately? Most of us probably can answer that one affirmatively. Use a brush or comb? Well, yeah, of course. Does your hair blow in the wind? Only when it’s windy.Such simplistic questions might have you scratching…

  7. Scanning Inside the Box at SIGGRAPH 

    July 22, 2013

    SIGGRAPH 2013, the 40th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, occurs in Anaheim, California, from July 21 to 25. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the conference is expected to attract 20,000 professionals eager to learn about advances across many…

  8. Providing Short Videos with Dynamic Looping—Automatically 

    July 22, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies With today’s mobile devices, users can find shooting high-definition video as easy as snapping a photograph. That should mean, before long, that preserving and sharing bursts of video might become as commonplace as the current practice of exchanging still images.That’s…

  9. Summit explores the promise of computing 

    July 18, 2013

    The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013—the fourteenth edition of this annual event—is now history, but I’m still catching my breath after two days of meeting and sharing ideas with some of the world’s foremost computer scientists. In attendance were more than 400 representatives of academic…

  10. Joint research center reaches new heights for environmental sciences 

    July 17, 2013

    I enjoy being able to work in technology because it has the potential for great impact in a range of research areas. But, more specifically, I have the privilege to work with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil to achieve that goal. Together,…

  11. Indian Researcher Helps Prove Math Conjecture from the 1950s 

    July 16, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies On June 18, Adam Marcus and Daniel A. Spielman of Yale University, along with Nikhil Srivastava of Microsoft Research India, announced a proof of the Kadison-Singer conjecture, a question about the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. Ten days later, they…

  12. Digital Assistance for Sign-Language Users 

    July 16, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Sign language is the primary language for many deaf and hard-of-hearing people. But it currently is not possible for these people to interact with computers using their native language.Because of this, researchers in recent years have spent lots of time…

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