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For contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.
In the news | SIGCHI
Buxton's influence has been enormous. His contributions to the field of human-computer interaction start with music: coupling sound, music, and computers through tools, instruments, and even score editors.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In 1825, Michael Faraday, the great British physicist/chemist, had a brilliant idea: Let’s find a way to get children more interested in science. He proceeded to inaugurate the Christmas Lectures, hosted annually by…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area,…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area, Research in Software Engineering (RiSE), headed by…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Asia, celebrating its 10th anniversary, recently presented its annual Computing in the 21st Century academic symposium, held over two days, Nov. 4 in Beijing and Nov. 7 in Singapore. For the…
Awards | International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium
Award citation: The Leadership Award honored Dr. Gary Sullivan of Microsoft for his contributions to video coding and its standardization. The results of Sullivan’s research and his contributions are integral parts of today’s modern video standards such as H.263 and…
In the news | Dr. Dobbs
Microsoft Research has released CHESS, an automated tool for finding errors -- data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations -- in multithreaded software by systematically exploring thread schedules. Once CHESS locates an error, it provides a fully repeatable execution…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Concurrent programming is demanding. While part of a program is modifying data, the other parts must be prevented from doing likewise. Manually organizing such tasks is challenging for the most adept experts. People…