Join Microsoft for this one day event to lean how Windows Azure can be used in curricula, support research endeavours, and enable student projects. Institution administrators can explore how to use Windows Azure for infrastructural and application needs. Location Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre UCL...

Do you have a device running the latest Windows Phone 8 operating system? Are you a fan of the TouchDevelop app that enables you to create apps directly ON your mobile device? Do you love to try out the latest apps, and give feedback about what you like or wish to see improved? Then our beta...

I would like to make you aware of new enhancements to “Design Inspiration” these include case studies and content updates on http://design.windows.com Design principles – This a new document in the design guidance section that focuses on the Microsoft design principles. New design inspiration and case...

  In September 2012, Microsoft Research received 111 PhD applications which were reviewed by 153 internal and external reviewers between October and December 2012. We have now selected 20 applications that will be funded through Microsoft Research Connections starting in the academic year 2013/14...

A new round of the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA started in September when 109 applications were received from 20 countries in the EMEA region. Applications comprised those submitted to the Initiative in Informatics with Edinburgh University (where we co-fund four PhD Scholarships...

  Royal Exposure for .NET Gadgeteer Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer was presented as part of the University of Southampton ASTRA project at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Prince Philip and other distinguished guests attended this celebration of engineering on the occasion of the naming of “Prince Philip...

Call for 2013 SEIF Award Applications Microsoft Research Connections issued a Request for Proposals for the 2013 Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Awards. The foundation supports top researchers who are conducting academic research that primarily involves Microsoft technologies. Each...

I wanted to share some of the Microsoft Research collaborations to build scientific tools and data analysis services in the Windows Azure cloud. One specific story to highlight was how Windows Azure helps provide affordable supercomputing time to researchers and simplifies the management of large scale...

These versatile tools range from games to help you get started in a new programming language to analysis engines that enhance the power and usability of Visual Studio. These are tools made by researchers for researchers , designed specifically to meet the needs by people who share their needs. Microsoft...

  The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was held July 16 to 17 on the Redmond campus, with 431 attendees from 235 institutions in 30 countries. In addition, this year we streamed the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit live. This year’s focus on advancing the state of the art covered two key themes...

Microsoft Research Redmond is seeking applications from EMEA for the 2013 Faculty Fellowship Program (targeted at early career faculty members nominated by their institution). Each year since 2005, Microsoft Research has recognized innovative, promising new faculty members from a number of research institutions...

Hadoop On Azure allows a user to run Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Azure as a service.  As your aware from my previous blog this service is currently in private CTP with limited capacity, and by invitation only.  However my colleague WenMing has added some more capacity today, So if your an academic...

  Microsoft Research’s Project Hawaii extends the Windows Phone with the power of the cloud. The smartphone provides the sensors, mobility, and data; the cloud provides powerful algorithms to enable scenarios that would otherwise not be possible. The newly released Project Hawaii Software Development...

LIVE Coverage of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July 16–17, 2012 For the first time, we'll be broadcasting the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit live. We will stream the keynotes from the Faculty Summit plus entertaining interviews with scientific and academic visionaries who will discuss how...

Developed by the team behind KODO , an elegant and simple visual programming language, So.cl is now open for registrations . So.cl offers a unique take on search and social networking and is designed to give students the ability to network with their peers and both share information and collaborate more...

Last week I attended The 2012 Eduserv Symposium. The event was focused on 'Big Data' and discussed whether Big Data represents a challenge or an opportunity and how we can best make use of it. This year's event was held at the Royal College of Physicians. The key message from the introduction was the...

F# for Education and Innovation Workshop The F# for Education and Innovation workshop will be held at the University of Pisa on June 28, 2012. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fsharpfored2012/default.aspx The free, one-day workshop provides a forum for attendees to learn and explore the use...

  TouchDevelop is a novel software development environment that lets users write programs for Windows Phone directly on a smartphone, without the need of a separate PC. The Windows Phone app can be used in the classroom—along with accompanying videos, a book, and slides—to teach programming concepts...

Research solutions from Microsoft , targeted at research departments in higher education institutions, the aim is to help you rapidly establish a platform for secure, collaborative research using, smart tools for analysis, development and professional authoring - all underpinned by scalable High Performance...

Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship 2012 We are pleased to announce the final results of this year’s PhD Scholarship Programme.  In September 2011, Microsoft Research received 110 PhD applications which were reviewed by 148 internal and external reviewers between October and December 2011. Microsoft...

Researchers The Windows Azure Research Engagement project aims to boost scholarly and scientific research by extending computing to the cloud. We provide a cloud computing platform and work with researchers on projects that push the frontiers of client and cloud computing. Resources About Windows Azure...

The conference takes  place in Berkeley, California, May 7-8.  As in previous years, the workshop brings together researchers, educators and practitioners from all over the world. This year workshop is in association with and supported by the University of California, Berkeley. The keynote...

On the 7 th December 2011,  the DPE Academic team exhibited at the annual Microsoft Research Cambridge Think Computer Science event held this year at The Imperial War Museum, Duxford . Here is a write-up from Geoff Hughes of the days events. A suitably expansive and fun  venue for the focus...

  Learn how researchers are developing games that combine real-world and digital experiences in their quest for a unified game layer for education that improves academic outcomes and enables new types of educational research. In collaboration with Microsoft Research, a research group comprised of...

Call for Content: Partner Support for ChronoZoom ChronoZoom serves as a "master timeline" tying together all kinds of specialized timelines and electronic resources, and aspires to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences and to unify all knowledge of the past. We are seeking...