Social sciences
The Rise of the Social Developer Within a Participatory Culture of Software Engineering
“Software developers rely on many different media to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with others. Recently, social tools have dramatically changed the landscape of software engineering, challenging the old-fashioned stereotype of the solitary and selfish developer.…
Turing, von Neumann and Brenner in the Deciphering of Biology
We live in interesting times. Seers predict Utopian or Dystopian futures where Algorithms and data will be the gods that rule our destiny and that of the planet. These new gods have taken time arriving.…
Raffles
Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
Prediction and explanation in social systems
Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…
Fukushima Daiichi – Six Years Later
Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the loss of electrical power, control, and instrumentation at…
