Microsoft Research

March 20, 2014

Microsoft Research has launched a Climate Data award program, which includes 12 months of free Windows Azure cloud computing resources. The grants will go to 40 recipients selected from proposals submitted by June 15. Each award provides up to 180,000 hours of cloud-computing time and 20 terabytes of cloud storage.

March 18, 2014

After predicting an impressive 21 out of 24 winners in the recent the 86th annual Academy Awards, David Rothschild, an economist from Microsoft Research New York City, is now taking on March Madness – the 2014 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

March 18, 2014

Leslie Lamport, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, has been awarded the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, for “imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages,” according to the ACM press release.

March 10, 2014

HereHere – a project that focuses on driving hyperlocal, real-world engagement to encourage civic discourse – makes its debut Monday in the Big Apple. The project comes from Microsoft Research’s Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE Labs). Kati London is a senior researcher and the lead for HereHere, which began in July 2013.

February 28, 2014

The Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School encourages women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and students from smaller colleges to apply. The school, which takes place from June 16 to Aug. 8 in New york City, provides an introduction to large-scale data analysis for local undergraduate students who are interested in attending graduate school in computer science and related fields.

February 26, 2014

Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton, whose pioneering work in human-computer interaction helped build the foundation of ubiquitous computing, and Jeff Han, Microsoft general manager and Perceptive Pixel founder, discuss the repeated death and resurrection of 3D and how it can become more interactive and useful, as well as the future of display innovations, in Channel 9’s ongoing series, “Microsoft Research Luminaries.”

February 25, 2014

In the book, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens,” released Feb. 25, Microsoft researcher and ethnographer danah boyd explores major myths about teens’ use of social media. She finds they engage with each other and develop a sense of identity – despite parental obstacles and other challenges.