Microsoft Research Connections Blog

Summit Promotes Women in Computing

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:19:00 GMT

Summit Promotes Women in Computing
Leaders from education, industry, and government gathered at the NCWIT Summit in Chicago to explore avenues for inspiring, recruiting, and retaining women in IT roles.

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Microsoft Latin American Faculty Summit: A Walk on the Intellectual Beach

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Latin American Faculty Summit: A Walk on the Intellectual Beach
In addition to discussions related to how computing can help solve real-world problems and advance scientific discovery, this year’s summit introduces the 2012 Faculty Fellow from Latin America and ChronoZoom’s new timeline of Mayan culture.

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TouchDevelop a Hit with Students

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:42:00 GMT

TouchDevelop a Hit with Students
At a recent University of Washington event, students developed creative smartphone apps
with TouchDevelop, a novel application development environment from Microsoft
Research that enables users to program directly on their Windows Phones.

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Get a Jump on Space Day

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:10:00 GMT

Get a Jump on Space Day
The Microsoft WorldWide Telescope team will join the Museum of Flight in Seattle
for an early-bird Space Day celebration on Thursday, May 3, with free admission from 5:00
to 9:00 P.M.

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From Smartphone to Smart Home: Automating the Modern Home

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:53:00 GMT

From Smartphone to Smart Home: Automating the Modern Home
By working with smartphones and cloud services, Microsoft Research HomeOS simplifies the development and management of smart-home applications that can remotely control locks, lights, thermostats, cameras, and more.

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ChronoZoom Arrives in Asia

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:30:00 GMT

ChronoZoom Arrives in Asia
Learn about the Asian launch of ChronoZoom, which takes place in Seoul, Korea, later this month. We encourage academics in the humanities and computer science to join the community to help grow the content and capabilities of this open-source tool.

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Open Data for Open Science—an Eye-Opening Event

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Open Data for Open Science—an Eye-Opening Event
Microsoft researchers and engineers who work on cutting-edge computing technologies gathered with leading academic and government scientists who conduct environmental research with big data at our second annual Open Data for Open Science workshop.

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Microsoft and Computer Science Educators—Inspiring the Next Generation

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:57:00 GMT

Microsoftand Computer Science Educators—Inspiring the Next Generation
At this year’s international symposium for computer science educators, SIGCSE 2012,
Microsoft demonstrated the company’s ongoing commitment to computer science
education. Learn about the conference and some of the educational technologies we
demoed.

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Inspiring Computer Science Students in Our Backyard

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Inspiring Computer Science Students in Our Backyard Read about Microsoft Research’s ongoing efforts to attract talented young women to careers in computer science and to encourage female students to advance their studies in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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Innovation in Software Research Recognized in 2012 SEIF Awards

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:15:00 GMT

Innovation in Software Research Recognized in 2012 SEIF Awards
The Microsoft Research SEIF awards provide seed funding to groundbreaking research in software engineering. This year, we requested proposals that focus on the application of software engineering to mobile and cloud computing.

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COSBI Researchers Hunt for Obesity Factors at the Molecular Level

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:57:00 GMT

COSBI Researchers Hunt for Obesity Factors at the Molecular Level
An ongoing research program seeks to unravel the complex molecular nutritional interplay of diet, exercise, genetics, and obesity. The study’s goal is to create dietary guidelines that will reduce the incidence of obesity and its related chronic diseases.

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Presenting the History of Everything

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Presenting the History of Everything
ChronoZoom seeks to unify all knowledge of the past and make time relationships between different studies of history clear and vivid to help students and researchers arrive at new understandings of the past. Try out the beta version and participate in community feedback.

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WorldWide Telescope Takes Center Stage in Moscow

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:00:00 GMT

WorldWide Telescope Takes Center Stage in Moscow
This February, Worldwide Telescope Day attracted Russian astronomers of all levels—professional, amateur, student, and teacher. A variety of lectures, training, demos, and tours revealed the value of this tool for teachers and researchers.

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No Language Left Behind

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

No Language Left Behind
Learn about efforts to develop a tool that could potentially provide automatic machine translation of the many native languages not yet supported by major translation providers.

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Data Visualization Reaches New Heights with Layerscape

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Data Visualization Reaches New Heights with Layerscape
From the ocean depths to the high desert, Layerscape is helping scientists visualize complex data, achieve new insights, and collaborate with distant colleagues. This free set of research tools is now available to the public.

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.NET Gadgeteer Stirs Excitement in British Schools

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:18:00 GMT

.NET Gadgeteer Stirs Excitement in British Schools
British students learned how to design and build their own computer gadgets at school as part of the first .NET Gadgeteer school pilot project in the United Kingdom. Learn about the project and why .NET Gadgeteer is especially suitable for education.

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Microsoft Research Plays Matchmaker this February

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:33:00 GMT

Microsoft Research Plays Matchmaker this February
Two major computing conferences take place in the Seattle area this month and Microsoft Research is hosting an event for researchers and thought leaders from both conferences to network and discuss their common interests in social search research.

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Workshop Bolsters Chinese Research Uses of Kinect for Windows

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:20:00 GMT

Workshop Bolsters Chinese Research Uses of Kinect for Windows
Faculty and students from Chinese universities showcased their Kinect-based research, exchanged creative ideas, and learned about Kinect-based R&D at Microsoft Research Asia during the December 2011 Kinect for Windows Workshop in Beijing.

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Addressing the Need for More Women in Computer Science Programs

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Addressing the Need for More Women in Computer Science Programs
Learn how Microsoft encourages more young women to pursue educations in science, technology, engineering, and math. Also, we announce the recipients of the 2012 the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund and Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship.

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Managing the Scientific Data Explosion: a Response to the OSTP Digital Data RFI

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:30:00 GMT

Managing the Scientific Data Explosion: a Response to the OSTP Digital Data RFI
The scientific community must advance its ability to curate, preserve, and use digital data for research. Learn about Microsoft’s response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy “Digital Data” RFI.

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Readers’ Choice: Top 10 Blogs of 2011

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:50:00 GMT

Readers’ Choice: Top 10 Blogs of 2011
Read summaries of the top 10 Microsoft Research Connections blogs of 2011, as chosen by your clicks.

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Coping with Data Deluge

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:22:00 GMT

Coping with Data Deluge
The massive datasets available today create a need for powerful data-mining tools to help scientists use the data. At a Keck Institute for Space Studies event, attendees learn about Microsoft products that accelerate and deepen data-intensive research.

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No CS Student Left Behind

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:20:00 GMT

No CS Student Left Behind
As part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage computer science education around the world, Microsoft researchers recently shared their expertise in technology and science with students and talked about careers in research.

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RFP on Using Technology to Combat Human Trafficking

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT

RFP on Using Technology to Combat Human Trafficking
Microsoft Research is requesting proposals that investigate the implications of technology in human trafficking of minors, to help in the development of innovative ways of using technology to combat this crime.

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Layerscape for Earth-Science Storytelling

Microsoft Research Connections Team — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:32:00 GMT

Layerscape for Earth-Science Storytelling
Microsoft Research has just released a new way to convey earth-science concepts, called Layerscape. Learn how you can use this data visualization engine to create 3-D visual stories based on earth-science data.

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