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Video: A Look at Tomorrow's Health Solutions Today

In a special, two-part video edition of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Dr. Bill Crounse visits with researchers at Microsoft Research to discuss promising areas of research that one day might lead to solutions with a direct or indirect app... read more


Realistic Special Effects Coming Soon for Home Videos

Digital photographers are used to tinkering with their photos at home. Now, amateur video makers can create movie special effects thanks to prototype software from Microsoft Research Cambridge. read more


Prof Chris Bishop Takes Us on a ‘Hi-Tech Trek’ Through the Digital World in the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Chris Bishop of Microsoft Research Cambridge will deliver The Royal Institution of Great Britain's 2008 Christmas Lectures. read more


Microsoft Test-Driving Wi-Fi Use in Vehicles

Researchers show potential of public wireless networks. read more


Collabio Game Explores Social-Network Data Mining…And Social Psychology

What’s the most powerful, untapped information repository on the Web today? read more


Tweaking Channel Widths to Improve Wireless Communication

A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks is just one of eight papers from Microsoft Research to be accepted for presentation during SIGCOMM 2008, scheduled for Aug. 17-22 in Seattle. read more


Microsoft Researchers “Network��� at SIGCOMM 2008

This week in the Emerald City, hundreds of the world’s top researchers in the field of computer networking will converge for SIGCOMM 2008, the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication... read more


Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon

Turns out, it is a small world. The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication. read more


Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of l... read more


Talented Interns Take Microsoft Research by Storm

In what has become a summertime tradition, Microsoft Research once again is playing host to hundreds of high-achieving interns—and a fun, productive time is had by all. read more


Using Repeated Image Content to Render Photos More Efficiently

Factoring Repeated Content Within and Among Images is just one of 13 papers from Microsoft Research that will be presented Aug. 11-15 during SIGGRAPH 2008. read more


Microsoft Research Lab Opens Quietly Next to MIT, Director Says Area’s Intellectual Climate like “Dry Timber” Ready to Ignite

A Microsoft research lab announced in February quietly opened its doors in Kendall Square earlier this month, and the lab’s leaders have wasted no time changing the computer-science dynamic in the Boston area. read more


Microsoft’s Free Tools for Scholarly Research

The Microsoft External Research group has been hard at work developing tools for scholarly research. So where is Redmond going with this? During Microsoft Research’s ninth annual Faculty Summit, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft Externa... read more


Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft's Sphere

A group of academics attending Microsoft Research's Faculty Summit will be among the first people outside Microsoft to see Sphere, a spherical surface computer developed by Microsoft Research. read more


Microsoft External Research’s Hey Tells Scientists: We Can Help

Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft External Research, discusses his first year in that role, his vision for how Microsoft and academic researchers can collaborate, and some of the challenges and opportunities for his organization. read more


Microsoft Research Unveils Free Software Tools to Help Scholars and Researchers Share Knowledge

Microsoft Research's Faculty Summit fosters industry-academic partnerships to create next-generation computing technologies. read more


Transforming Computer Science in the Gaming Age

Microsoft Research and academics use video-game-inspired courses to lure the next generation of computer scientists. read more


Microsoft Tries to One-up Google PageRank

Microsoft researchers and academic collaborators have detailed an idea it calls BrowseRank that seeks to bring more of a human touch to search rankings. read more


A Celebration of Asian Innovation

On Aug. 12 in Hong Kong, Microsoft Research Asia will inaugurate a series of events to commemorate 10 years of ground-breaking work by hosting the Microsoft Research Asia 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum—featuring a special guest. read more


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