Improving Diagnostics for Brain Tumors
As computer scientists, we have the privilege of working on challenging problems, the solutions to which can markedly improve lives—and in some cases, even save them. It is just such a challenge that Senior Researcher Antonio Criminisi and his team…
Microsoft Research Asia Wows Asia Pacific Academics
Posted by Rob Knies Eight sentences. That’s all it took for Rick Rashid, worldwide head of Microsoft Research, to electrify a crowd of 2,000 students and faculty members in Tianjin, China, on Oct. 25 during the 14th annual Computing in…
TouchDevelop Now Available as Web App
Posted by Rob Knies If you’re a software developer—or if you follow the work of software developers—you’ve probably heard of TouchDevelop, a Microsoft Research app that enables you to write code for your phone using scripts on your phone. Its…
Preserving Mayan Language into the Next B’ak’tun
The best way to describe how I’m feeling is deeply honored and emotionally moved. This is the feeling I get every time we start a Microsoft Translator Hub project in language preservation or translation because it is always an honor…
N.Y. Workshop Caters to Emerging Field
Posted by Rob Knies How can influential people be identified on social networks? Can Twitter data identify the political ideology of legislators? What, exactly, does it mean that something on the web has “gone viral”?Mushrooming interest in social networking…
14 Years of Inspiring Asia Pacific Ph.D. Candidates
Posted by Rob Knies For the past 13 years, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program has offered the most prestigious computer-science Ph.D. scholarships in the Asia Pacific region. Hundreds of students have been inspired to excel in the interim,…
Jammin’ with Cloud-Enabled Apps
Are you a student looking to win a little extra spending money? Or maybe just get some props for your coding chops? If so, you’ll want to enter your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app in the Project Hawaii Mobile…
微软学术盛会首次走进天津 与国内高校探索自然计算体验
2012年10月25日，北京—今天，由微软亚洲研究院和南开大学、天津大学联合举办的第十四届“二十一世纪的计算”大型国际学术研讨会在天津大礼堂隆重举行。本届大会以“计算，自然而然！”为主题，邀请国内外计算领域的大师，与来自天津地区的2,000多名高校师生探讨人机交互、机器学习、移动与云计算、大数据、传感器、社交计算、可信度计算等议题，以及如何利用这些领域的技术突破为普通大众带来自然的计算体验。通过这...
Zeta: Scheduling Interactive Services with Partial Execution
Posted by Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, and James Larus, Microsoft Research; and Chenyu Yan, Microsoft Sharing a resource, such as a computer processor or disk drive, requires the system to make decisions about which user’s task gets to use the…