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MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev [Video]
This MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at MIX11 on April 13th 2011.
News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Researchers Find Link Between Plant Metabolism and Biological Clock
University of Cambridge scientist, Neil Dalchau, and colleagues report sensitivity of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian oscillator to sucrose, which could be a proof that plant metabolism can regulate the circadian mechanism.
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Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging
A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor’s real name, access their private data and…
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The 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (shared with Simon Marlow)
Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow receive the SIGPLAN Software Award as the authors of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), which is the preeminent lazy functional programming system for industry, teaching, and research.
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Neil wins 2011 Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science
Neil has made important discoveries that provide invaluable insights into the regulation of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana using a combination of mathematical modeling and experimental intervention.
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Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 2011
For innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information.
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Ball shares 2001 CAV Award
For contributions to software model checking, specifically the development of the SLAM/SDV software model checker that successfully demonstrated computer-aided verification techniques on real programs.
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2010 ACM Distinguished Scientist
The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made…
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Chandra: Top innovator under 35
Ranveer Chandra made the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, his laboratory for the first large-scale network to demonstrate the potential of using white spaces to deliver broadband wireless.