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Cardelli Receives 2007 Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Luca Cardelli, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, has been named winner of the 2007 Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize, presented annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions. Cardelli, who heads the…
Microsoft Research Cambridge Puts Visual Studio Beta on Fast Track
With help from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Microsoft’s Developer Division will be offering an entirely new method for obtaining the latest beta of Visual Studio® 2008, Microsoft’s next-generation development tool for Windows Vista®, the 2007 Office System, and the Web. Microsoft…
CHI 2007: A Matter of Perspiration and Inspiration
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research The research and academic community is rife with conferences. Just about any subject or discipline you can name has its own annual gathering, where the learned and the innovative come together to discuss…
Computing Industry Bestows Rare Honor upon Hoare, Lampson
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research One has spent his professional career exploring programming language theory. The other has made fundamental contributions to PC networks, operating systems, security, and document publishing. One works in Cambridge, U.K. The other works…
BrowserShield: Helping Make the Web Safe for Surfers
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s a familiar cliché: The best offense is a good defense. You hear it all the time in a sporting context. But, as it turns out, that hoary truism applies to Web surfing,…
zCast: Broadcasting Data-Based Services to Mobile Devices
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Have you seen the one about …? From time immemorial, mankind has maximized its ability to share information orally. Whether it is passing along a recounting of a movie, recapping last night’s sporting…
What A Way to Go
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Go is more than a game. It spans centuries, it’s integrated into religion, politics, and business, it’s been embraced by poets and warriors, and it’s considered one of the great artificial intelligence challenges today.…
The Life of a Digital Photo
By Suzanne Ross History is being written in a new way. It is being written by people through the big and the small events in their lives. We write history through personal Web sites, discussion boards, and the legacy of…
Your Neighborhood Network
By Suzanne Ross Almost everyone complains about the loss of connection to their neighbors. Parents don’t know if it’s safe to let their kids go next door, or down the street. They don’t know who to borrow a cup of…