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Researchers Cherish University Roles
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research For the past 11 years, the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit has brought academic and government research professionals together to share perspectives on new research, the challenges facing the research community, and ways to break…
Barrelfish: Exploring a Multicore OS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Multicore and many-core processors represent the future of computing. Concerns with power consumption and heat management have limited the ability of chip manufacturers to continue to provide more processing power via faster clock…
CHI ’11: Enhancing the Human Condition
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research The Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), being held May 7-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, provides a showcase of the latest advances in human-computer interaction (HCI). “The…
In the news | Crop Biotech Update
Researchers Find Link Between Plant Metabolism and Biological Clock
University of Cambridge scientist, Neil Dalchau, and colleagues report sensitivity of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian oscillator to sucrose, which could be a proof that plant metabolism can regulate the circadian mechanism.
In the news | New Phytologist
Neil wins 2011 Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science
Neil has made important discoveries that provide invaluable insights into the regulation of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana using a combination of mathematical modeling and experimental intervention.
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (shared with Simon Marlow)
Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow receive the SIGPLAN Software Award as the authors of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), which is the preeminent lazy functional programming system for industry, teaching, and research.
MIDAS: A Golden Opportunity in Russia
By Rob Knies, Senior Editor, Microsoft Research Collaboration is one of the hallmarks of Microsoft Research. Across the organization, the desire to work with world-class computer scientists takes on many forms, all with the express interest of advancing the state…
The Quest for Quality Searches
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) holds a conference, it must be difficult for participants to decide which sessions to attend, because creating easy, effective search…
Terapixel Project: Lots of Data, Expertise
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,…