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January 6, 2014

WorldWide Telescope celebrates fifth anniversary with a new release

For five years, WorldWide Telescope has inspired students and astronomy enthusiasts with its interactive educational content and detailed perspective of the heavens. The newest version comes with powerful new features and includes access to new data sets that make planets and other solar system bodies look better than ever.

December 31, 2013

Hackathons past and future can build diverse teams of technological innovators

The recent Americas Datafest demonstrated how technology experts, working in partnership with subject matter experts, could generate creative and promising ideas that can make a difference. And in April, the Microsoft Research International Women’s Hackathon 2014 will invite students to design software apps.

December 18, 2013

Save the date for the second annual International Women’s Hackathon: April 24 – 27

Designed to encourage and support female college students pursing computer sciences, the second annual International Women’s Hackathon is set for April 24 – 27, 2014 on university campuses around the world.

December 16, 2013

Lucas Joppa’s work to curtail animal poaching – by using technology – piques royal interest

An albatross caught the eye of England’s Prince William during a recent trip to the London Zoo – but it wasn’t real. It was a toy with a GPS tracking device attached to it, conceived with help from Microsoft Research Cambridge to track animal movements – including the instinctive actions that come from facing poachers.

December 10, 2013

Microsoft researcher gives ‘Hour of Code’ to local Seattle community every day

Four days a week, Frank Martinez teaches students at south Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School how to turn coding into real-world projects. On Thursdays, he educates people vulnerable to homelessness on the fundamentals of computer science. But none of this is his day job.

December 9, 2013

Microsoft Research’s social network Socl launches on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone

December 3, 2013

Join the conversation about art and technology in this ‘Instance’ of found images and 3D scans

James George is one of those people who straddle that border between art and technology, and have no problem blurring those lines in his work. Starting Dec. 3, his art installation, “Instance,” will inhabit the Studio 99 art space in Redmond, right in the heart of Microsoft Research.

December 3, 2013

Exhibition from Microsoft Research’s first artist in residence goes on display

December 2, 2013

ChronoZoom is teaming up with teachers to rewrite history

There’s an effort underway to rewrite the history books and it’s all being driven by a group of time travelers from the future. Just ask Donald Brinkman, a Program Manager with Microsoft Research who is allegedly acting on behalf of these time travelers to alter history – or at least the way it’s taught in the classrooms – to help tomorrow’s leaders make better choices.

November 21, 2013

Video: This professor is using ChronoZoom to create a complete timeline of climate change

To help his college students grasp how climate has changed over all that time, Jeff Dozier is building a comprehensive timeline using ChronoZoom, an open-source tool from Microsoft that lets you visualize historical data on an interactive timeline.