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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…
Multiplayer Gaming for Smartphones
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center People love their smartphones—and they love to play games on them. On common smartphone software platforms, including Windows Phone, games are among the most popular applications and constitute the vast majority of…
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 | The Register
OpenID warns of ‘psychic paper’ authentication attack
The flaw is noteworthy because many high-profile sites â including Google, Yahoo! and Flickr â use the technology so that once users have logged into one site, they aren’t constantly prompted for passwords.
Kinect Audio: Preparedness Pays Off
By Rob Knies, Senior Editor, Microsoft Research It always helps to be prepared. Just ask Ivan Tashev. A principal software architect in the Speech group at Microsoft Research Redmond, Tashev played an integral role in developing the audio technology that…
In the news | Channel 9 Live at MIX11
MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev [Video]
This MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at MIX11 on April 13th 2011.
Maximum Overhang, Optimum Reward
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Yuval Peres, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond and manager of the Theory Group, always advocates both healthy skepticism and an open mind when it comes to problem solving. Even so, Peres was pleasantly…
Faster Servers, Services with FlashStore
By Doug Gantenbein Memory has its faults—and not only the human variety. Hard drives, for instance, can hold terabytes cheaply. But they’re slow. Random-access memory (RAM) is fast but expensive, and data in RAM disappear the instant the power goes…