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Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…
There I was, in the fall of 2015—just one week back at Microsoft after having left the company for a few years. I stared at my computer and struggled to understand how my new team, soon to be named PROSE,…
In the news | Microsoft DevBlog
Making repeated edits easier with IntelliCode suggestions
What if your developer tools could track your edits and learn while you are making changes? What if they could offer to do remaining edits for you? Your repeated edit experience is now enhanced by IntelliCode suggestions in Visual Studio…
When the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages, several agencies published infection and mortality data for different geographical regions in the public domain. This data appeared in web pages, CSV files, JSON files, and more. There was plenty of…
Old tools, new tricks: Improving the computational notebook experience for data scientists
| Titus Barik, Ishita Prasad, Rob DeLine, and Sumit Gulwani
As technology has advanced, the way we accomplish things in our lives has shifted. While new tech is influencing such basic human activities as communication, for instance, encouraging us to reconsider what it means to connect with one another, technological…
Program synthesis and the art of programming by intent with Dr. Sumit Gulwani
Dr. Sumit Gulwani is a programmer’s programmer. Literally. A Partner Research Manager in the Program Synthesis, or PROSE, group at Microsoft Research, Dr. Gulwani is a leading researcher in program synthesis and the inventor of many intent-understanding, programming-by-example and programming-by-natural…
In the news | Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
IntelliCode Refactorings is available as a preview feature of Visual Studio IntelliCode 2019!