Ecology and environment
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Microsoft Research support for climate change studies
Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate…
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ZooTracer: Setting a Track Record
Posted by Rob Knies People love to watch animals. That’s why zoos exist. That’s why photographic safaris command princely sums. That’s why cat videos have become an unstoppable force. Lucas Joppa loves to watch animals,…
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Latest Microsoft Research Luminary: Lucas Joppa, Conservation Scientist
Posted by Rob Knies Over the past several years, Microsoft Research Cambridge has established its bona fides as a serious player in the area of computational ecology, so it’s no great surprise that work from…
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A new tool for teaching climate change in the cloud
https://youtu.be/Pwtpseb9fOM Starting in the tenth century, during the Medieval Warm Period, Greenland was a fraction of a degree warmer than today. Norse settlers raised livestock and cultivated small farms. Later, in the fifteenth century, a…
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Fueling the Future: FAPESP
This five-minute video is part of campaign to increase the awareness within the academic research community of the extent that Microsoft Research invests in the future of computer science research. Its core message is that…
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Fueling the Future: FAPESP
Microsoft Research is committed to investing in the future of computer science research through its Joint Research Center program as illustrated through the story of the Microsoft Research – FAPESP Joint Research center. Joint research…
