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Kristin Lauter’s love for mathematics has enabled her to take the next significant step in her professional career, as the next president of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Lauter manages the Cryptography group at…

Lauter named the next president of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

Cognitive psychologist Mary Czerwinski and her boyfriend were having a vigorous argument as they drove to Vancouver, B.C., from Seattle, where she works at Microsoft Research. She can’t remember the subject, but she does recall…

For the 2009 paper, ‘Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.’

His development and maintenance of GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, as well as his stewardship of the Haskell 98 standardization effort, have made Haskell into both an active research testbed and an industrial-strength language for…

Fellows are elected for notable engineering achievements and novel contributions in design, production, research, innovation, intellectual property generation, project implementation, consultancy and technology development.

Thanks to Microsoft’s incubator-like environment and George’s ingenuity, the artist in residence has become an expert in manipulating three-dimensional objects.

…one of George’s pieces, called “Grip,” used Microsoft Research’s real-time 3D scene capturing technology to create an abstract interactive presentation of two human forms, which fall away from each other and then come back together…

George was invited to spend three months as the first-ever artist-in-residence at Microsoft Research’s Studio 99, where he’s had the company’s digital toolkit at his disposal to create new works of art.