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January 26, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Researchers and businesspeople around the world now have at their disposal a new way to perform massive computations over large quantities of unstructured data more quickly and easily than they’ve ever imagined.…

July 12, 2010

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How can you achieve the impossible? Easy—as long as you have the right people and the right tools. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research Redmond is proof positive. The effort—to create the largest,…

July 13, 2009

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How deep is the ocean? Geologically, the answer is straightforward: almost seven miles. This we know from a series of surveys, beginning in the 19th century, of the depth of the Mariana Trench,…

October 27, 2008

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Concurrent programming is demanding. While part of a program is modifying data, the other parts must be prevented from doing likewise. Manually organizing such tasks is challenging for the most adept experts. People…