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Social sciences
Microsoft Research Blog
So.cl Gives Students a New Way to Learn
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The web, search, and social networking are changing the way students collaborate. To bring these elements together, Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is launching a site designed to…
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…ye who enter here…
Speaker: Par Strand, Chalmers University eScience and activities that build on e-infrastructure continue to grow rapidly and increasingly affect science and society. Vital to this growth are the availability and robustness of the underlying infrastructures…
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Which Networks Are Least Susceptible to Cascading Failures?
The spread of a cascading failure through a network is an issue that comes up in many domains: in the contagious failures that spread among financial institutions during a financial crisis, through nodes of a…
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Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena in On-Line Networks
With an increasing amount of social interaction taking place in the digital domain, and often in public on-line settings, we are accumulating enormous amounts of data about phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us:…
Project
Just Press Play
Intrinsic motivation via gameful education Just Press Play is a collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to wrap gameful and ludic experiences around the traditional pedagogical processes of a modern university. Starting in October…
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The Future of Writing
The Future of Writing was a design project commisioned by Microsoft Research Cambridge and the Microsoft Office team, in the summer of 2011, from the Royal College of Art in London. In this project five…
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Touchless Interaction in Medical Imaging
This project explores the use of new touchless technology in medical practice. With advances in medical imaging over the years, surgical procedures have become increasingly reliant on a range of digital imaging systems for navigation,…