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Non-Microsoft developers to get a peek at CHESS concurrency test tool
Microsoft's CHESS, a two-year-in-the-making tool from Microsoft Research designed to help developers test for concurrency errors, is set to make its public debut in two weeks. Microsoft researchers developed CHESS to help developers improve the reliability of concurrent, multi-threaded software…
Innovation Inquiries: The Birth of a Research Lab
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Since Microsoft Research New England was announced on Feb. 4, Jennifer Chayes, managing director of the lab, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been hard at work along with her deputy managing director, Christian…
AutoCollage: Summarize Your Adventures with a Click
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research You’ve got photos—lots and lots of photos. Everybody does these days, thanks to the digital-photography revolution. Hundreds, thousands, a veritable treasure trove of image-based memories. Sometimes, though, you don’t need thousands of photos.…
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Gary J. Sullivan Leads JVT to 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for the High Profile of the H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) Standard
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2008 to the Joint Video Team (JVT), an engineering experts' group led by its chairman Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft, for the development of the High…
Collabio Game Explores Social-Network Data Mining…And Social Psychology
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research What’s the most powerful, untapped information repository on the Web today? If you said Wikipedia, please go stand in the corner. Actually, it’s people, the billion or so of you who are tapping…
Tweaking Channel Widths to Improve Wireless Communication
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research We’ve been spoiled. In this age of virtually instantaneous communication, we have developed a thirst for immediate access to information. Waiting is a pain in the Internet age. Soon is not sufficient; we…
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Microsoft Research: How we watch the computer, how it watches us
At least once each year I trek on over to visit my colleagues at Microsoft Research. It's actually not much of a trek. The group's headquarters are really just a few blocks from my own office on the Microsoft campus.…
领航数字世界 探索缤纷未来–微软亚洲研究院十周年创新论坛在港成功举办
2008年8月13日，香港--在举世瞩目的2008年北京奥运会上，各国体育健儿正在为争夺奖牌、捍卫荣耀而展开激烈的角逐。与此同时，在中国香港，微软亚洲研究院十周年创新论坛亦引起了本地区科技界、学术界的极大关注。 昨晚于香港会展中心举办的微软亚洲研究院十周年创新论坛旨在探讨可能影响人类未来的新技术趋势，展望飞速发展的信息科技为亚洲、为世界带来的积极影响。卸任后首次来华的比尔.盖茨以“展下一个十年的创...
Using Repeated Image Content to Render Photos More Efficiently
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In these days of nearly ubiquitous access to digital cameras, and the consequent explosion of images available via the Internet, it has become more important than ever to find ways to render those…