Alphasoft
Skip Navigation Links
Home
Products
Clients
Contact
Services
Blog
Extranet
 
Skip Navigation Links.


Coming soon!

A New Competitor to LCD

A novel pixel design from Microsoft Research promises to be faster and brighter. read more


Microsoft Helps Farmers by Creating Videos on Best Practices

Microsoft Research India is producing videos for farmers in Kanakapura on improved farming techniques. read more


Exploring Ways to Make Search Better than Ever

Microsoft Research has contributed almost 19 percent of the papers accepted for presentation during SIGIR 2008, underscoring the organization’s commitment to make search a much more compelling experience than it is today. read more


India Project Addresses Location Search from a New Direction

Robust Location Search, a research project from Microsoft Research India, takes a new approach to solve unstructured or error-laden geospatial queries. read more


Image Crisis: Inspiring a New Generation of Computer Scientists

Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, urges the technology industry to consider what can be done to encourage young people to pursue technology-related career paths. read more


Worldwide Telescope: Two Months Old, a Million Downloads Strong

Twenty-nine years after man first walked on the moon, astronomical exploration retains an irresistible allure, as evidenced by Microsoft Research’s Worldwide Telescope, which attained its millionth download less than two months after being released. read more


Emmott Named Trustee for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts

Stephen Emmott, director of Computational Science for Microsoft Research Cambridge, has been appointed a trustee of Britain's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. read more


The A-Z of Programming Languages: Modula-3

Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research Cambridge discusses why Modula-3 played a major role in popularizing the notion of type-safe programming and why Modula-3 is still vastly superior to programs such as Java. read more


An Algorithm to Turn Melodies into Songs

New software from Microsoft Research creates chord progressions to accompany singers of all abilities. read more


Meet the Mom & Pop of Microsoft Research New England

Jennifer Chayes and Christian Borgs discuss their new research lab, Microsoft Research New England. read more


Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis

With the help of Microsoft Research, USC's Cyrus Shahabi is working to help scientists manage data to provide better results, reliability, and overall accuracy of data analysis. read more


In Search of Contracts in Software

Software incompatibility is a major concern for developers and users. In the project Tark, researchers at Microsoft Research India are attempting to alleviate this problem by discovering contracts in software. read more


Microsoft Research Extends Reach Through Partnerships

Microsoft Research collaborates with researchers across the globe on projects that support environmental initiatives—such as helping Indian farmers protect their land and helping scientists develop new tools to analyze the large volume of environment... read more


Wanted: World-Class Scientists to Save Planet

Q&A: As the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals kick off in Paris, Stephen Emmott of Microsoft Research discusses the critical need to inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology. read more


Future Tech: Seven Innovations That Will Change Your Life

Microsoft researchers are closely examining what they consider a staggering amount of wasted space on handheld devices. Where? On the flipside. read more


Special Reports: Jennifer Chayes (registration required)

The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions. read more


Feverish Foray into Satisfiability Proves Satisfying

Youssef Hamadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge found himself working at a breakneck pace toward SAT-Race 2008, but his efforts paid off when his project was declared the world’s best parallel solver. read more


Digital Green Reaps Honor for Helping Improve Agricultural Efficiency

Digital Green, a project from Microsoft Research India, won an award in the Stockholm Challenge for novel attempts to use digital video and mediated instruction to popularize the adoption of effective agricultural practices in the developing world. read more


Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Michael Isard and Vivek Narasayya of Microsoft Research have been chosen to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium, which features engineers aged 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional ... read more


The Largest Social Network Ever Analyzed

Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research discusses a recent project, Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network. read more


Microsoft's Rick Rashid on Building a Corporate Research Giant

The winner of the 2008 IEEE Piore Award considers Microsoft's impact on astronomy, biomedicine, Yahoo Research, and HP Labs. read more


Provision of License for Microsoft Research Technology and IP: Agreement Reached With FAST

FAST is the first Japanese company to license IP and technology from Microsoft Research. read more


Upgrading Humans

Human v2.0 is due out this century. Read an IM interview with Microsoft Research computer scientist Desney Tan, who wants to use technology to augment your operating system. read more


Coming Soon to a Computer Near You

Innovations from the world’s largest software company deliver and dazzle. read more


Association for Computing Machinery Honors Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall Team for Using Community-Generated Video to Improve Education in India

The Association for Computing Machinery will present the 2007 Eugene Lawler Award to Randy Wang and the Digital Study Hall team from Microsoft Research India for innovative use of cost-effective digital technology that helps improve the education of ... read more


Understanding Climate Change—One Tree at a Time

Drew Purves, scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, co-authored two papers published in the latest issue of Science, discussing new techniques for understanding forest dynamics and how that understanding could help combat climate change. read more


Using Crowdsourcing for Your Projects

While sitting upon mega-collections of social media, new-media artists are asking themselves, how can we leverage the amazing amount of social activity and content sharing happening online? Microsoft Research's Scott Counts has some answers. read more


Biomedical Informatics: Vision and Challenges

Microsoft Research's Dan Reed, a computational scientist known for his leadership in developing technology and science policy, envisions a device in every pocket, hooked into a distributed data infrastructure, that can alert users to urgent public he... read more


From the Ground Up: Piore Award Highlights Rashid’s Foundational Career

Microsoft Research senior vice president honored at 45th Design Automation Conference for contributions to modern operating systems and leadership in industrial research. read more


Video: Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Style

Roy Levin, head of Microsoft's Research lab in Silicon Valley, talks about the kinds of things his lab is working on. read more


Task Market: Web Bazaar for Document Expertise

Task Market, a technology preview from Microsoft Research Asia, enables small businesses to get more done by connecting with document experts for Microsoft Office-related tasks. read more


Video: Head of Microsoft Research Building Star Trek Future

Rick Rashid, head of Microsoft's Research labs and a major Star Trek fan, talks about what Microsoft's R&D labs are developing. read more


Is Your Group Seeking Information? SearchTogether!

SearchTogether, a project from Microsoft Research Redmond, is available as an Internet Explorer plug-in, enabling members of a group to investigate subjects of mutual interest in collaborative fashion. read more


Video: Cool Instant Translations from Microsoft Research

Microsoft researchers show the state of the art in translation software. Did you know you can translate from Chinese to English in near real time while you instant message with people around the world? read more


Video: Contract-Oriented Programming and Spec#

Programming-language guru Erik Meijer chats with Microsoft Research's Wolfram Schulte, Rustan Leino, and Peter Mueller about the Spec# programming system.. read more


A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First

During a tribute in honor of the accomplishments of computing legend Jim Gray on May 31 at the University of California at Berkeley, the impact of both his technical contributions and who he was as a person really struck home. read more


Video: Computing by Phone

Computer pioneer Chuck Thacker shares his vision for the future. read more


Microsoft's Survival Strategy

Innovation is vital to the future survival of Microsoft, according to its own research head. read more


Microsoft: Tech Transfer Sparked by Talented People

Successful technology transfer stems from a pool of talented people with smart ideas supported by right incentives to help their companies thrive, said Andrew Herbert, managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge. read more


Election Results Even Voters Can Trust

Josh Benaloh,senior cryptographer at Microsoft Research, discusses how cryptography could enable voters to check the accuracy and integrity of an election tally without having to trust election equipment, software, or personnel. read more


Digital Green Project Wins Stockholm Challenge Award

Digital Green, a project from Microsoft Research India to share effective farming practices via video technologies, has won the Culture Category of the Stockholm Challenge Awards 2008. read more