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Fitzgibbon Channels Led Zeppelin into Practical Engineering
When it comes to research, the concept of “head-banging” most likely conjures images of researchers banging their heads against walls or dry-erase boards. But for Microsoft researcher Andrew Fitzgibbon, it’s about inspiration. “I was on a 10-hour flight recently,” he…
Dans l’actualité | Engineering and Technology
Turing’s morphogenesis theory drives research into self-configuring systems
Today Turing’s idea has become an important starting point for thinking about systems that build themselves from a basic set of parts.
Dans l’actualité | The Guardian
How wearable cameras can help those with Alzheimer’s
The wearable camera is being touted as the latest must-have accessory for social-media obsessives, but is a real boon for helping people with serious medical conditions recall important events in their lives.
From Grassroots to Government
Simon Peyton Jones’ contributions to computer science continue to be recognized, and now, so is his advocacy for computing education. On June 10, during the 35th annual conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, hosted by SIGPLAN, the Association for…
Dans l’actualité | New Scientist
Windows bug-testing software cracks stem cell programs
Software used to keep bugs out of Microsoft Windows programs has begun shedding light on one of the big questions in modern science: how stem cells decide what type of tissue to become. Not only do the results reveal that…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research – Inria Joint Centre: inventing today, tomorrow’s world
Since its founding in 2006, the Microsoft Research — Inria Joint Centre has innovatively applied computer science and mathematics to a host of scientific challenges, from formal methods for mathematics to distributed systems and security, computer vision and medical imaging,…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Research Blog
Partnerships propel computer science
As part of its commitment to basic research, Microsoft invests in creating joint research centers around the world.
Microsoft Research Sends 3 to CHI Academy
Posted by Rob Knies Each year, SIGCHI, the international society for professionals, academics, and students interested in human technology and human-computer interaction (HCI), announces a short list of individuals who have been elected to the CHI Academy. You might wonder:…
From flying robots to energy-efficient memory systems
Today, February 5, 2014, marked the kickoff workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische…