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Eliminating Duplicated Primary Data 

October 13, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein The amount of data created and stored in the world doubles about every 18 months. Some of that data is distinctive—but by no means all of it. A PowerPoint presentation might start bouncing around a work group,…

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Play a Game, Help a Researcher 

October 12, 2011

Posted by Rob Knies Have you heard of Colonel Blotto? Me, neither—at least not until a few days ago, when I ran into my friend and colleague Thore Graepel  in the atrium of Building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus,…

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Sound the Bagpipes: Joint Initiative in Informatics Announced 

October 12, 2011

On October 5, 2011, on the stately campus of the University of Edinburgh, Sir Tim O’Shea, principal of the University of Edinburgh, and Rick Rashid, chief research officer of Microsoft Research, officially inaugurated a significant joint initiative in informatics. It…

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Israel Collaboration Takes Shape 

October 11, 2011

Posted by Rob Knies   Given the great strides taken in e-commerce over the past decade, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that such transactions are still in their infancy. Hence the need for the Academic Research Center for…

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Open Data for Open Science: The Rise of X-Informatics 

October 7, 2011

Astronomy is rapidly becoming exponentially data rich, with data management, data exploration, and knowledge discovering becoming central to the research enterprise. This has brought about great opportunity for growth and discovery in both astronomy and computational science. It has also…

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A Future for Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math 

October 5, 2011

As I read the Washington Post article by Anna Holmes entitled, “Technically, science will be less lonely for women when girls are spurred early,” I felt my heart grow heavy when I encountered the following quote from Jennifer Skaggs, a…

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Steve Hodges and Andrew Fitzgibbon awarded the IEEE ISMAR 10-year award for Kinect Fusion 

October 1, 2011

Steve Hodges and Andrew Fitzgibbon was awarded the ISMAR 2021 Impact Paper Award for the paper they published 10 years ago. It was the second most highly cited ISMAR paper.

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Adjusting Childhood Pneumonia Vaccination Periods May Save Lives in Nepal 

September 29, 2011

Nearly a million children die from pneumonia each year, making it a leading cause of death and the single most important health issue facing children under the age of five. The standard vaccination schedule calls for three doses of pneumonia…

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A Big Thank You to All of You! 

September 28, 2011

With the anniversary behind us, we wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for the congratulations and well wishes sent to us.  We also want to thank those of you who joined us in our locations to…

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