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  1. Blake’s Gibbs Lecture Focus: Machines That See, Powered by Probability 

    January 15, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Eighty years ago, Albert Einstein was invited to deliver the 11th installment of the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, established by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 1923 to give the public insight into the intricacies of mathematics and its applications.…

  2. 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…

  3. Testing Tools at a Conference Week in Zurich 

    July 21, 2011

    The beautiful interior of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule’s (ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) main building in Zurich is always abuzz with conferences at the end of June, including TOOLS—and this year was no exception. Now in its forty-ninth iteration, TOOLS was a week-long…