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Chuck Thacker Attains Computing’s Peak
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When Chuck Thacker graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1967, he envisioned a career as an engineering physicist, designing particle…
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TechFest 2010 Keynote Address
Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, addresses an audience of Microsoft customers and partners, at Microsoft Research TechFest 2010.
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Cloud Faster
To make cloud computing work, we must make applications run substantially faster, both over the Internet and within data centers. Our measurements of real applications show that today’s protocols fall short, leading to slow page-load…
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Rick Rashid introduces TechFest 2010
Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, and Kevin Schofield, general manager of the organization’s Strategy and Communications group, explains the value of TechFest during a video introduction to Rashid’s March 2 keynote address…
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