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April 18, 2014
WorldWide Telescope events and installations bring stars to life for children

Thanks to Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope (WWT), anyone can see the night sky in all its glory. Last fall, Microsoft Research helped bring the excitement of astronomy to Asian schoolchildren with the installation of a WWT-driven planetarium at the Shixinlu primary school in China and family events at Miraikan, Japan’s national science museum in Tokyo.

April 18, 2014
Developers: You can respond to user reviews of your apps and games

Developers will soon be able to respond to user reviews of their Windows Phone apps and games. This new feature allows app developers to address common questions, troubleshoot issues, understand user requests for new app capabilities and help ensure users get the best experience.

April 18, 2014
Holograph project brings interactive 3D platform to big data

Curtis Wong, the Microsoft Research scientist who gave the world the WorldWide Telescope, demonstrated a project called Holograph during Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley TechFair Thursday. It’s an interactive, 3D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of a display, using a variety of 3D stereographic techniques.

April 18, 2014
Programmers: Naiad platform makes it easy to get data into Azure

During Microsoft Research’s recent Silicon Valley TechFair, the “Naiad on Azure: Rich, Interactive Cloud Analytics” project showcased an aspect of the big-data movement that focuses on enabling data analysts to develop an application and then deploy it seamlessly to the cloud.