Of the 150-odd demos in TechFest 2009, the best-named is Digital Past to Digital Presence, a collection of concepts from the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge . David Kirk , a post-doctoral researcher in the group, explains what ties the technologies together. "Both bits...
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on 02-26-2009
Filed under: Research, TechFest, Microsoft, Cambridge, 2009, Richard Banks, David Kirk, Wayve, Family Archive, Socio-Digital Systems, Time Card, CellFrame, Sean Lindley
Andrew Herbert , managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge , was busily reading e-mail when I passed him in the hall a few minutes ago, so I doubled back and asked him to provide a brief statement about the value of TechFest for his lab and for the larger organization. His response: "The...
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on 03-06-2008
Filed under: 2008, Research, TechFest, Microsoft, Andrew Herbert, Cambridge
With a grounding in what the European Science Initiative is trying to accomplish, and the reasons why, I then stepped across the aisle in the Rainierr/St. Helens room of the Microsoft Conference Center to get a feel for the individual demos on display in the Science for the 21st Century booth. Leeza...
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on 03-05-2008
Filed under: Research, Microsoft, European Science Initiative, Cambridge, Drew Purves, Robin Freeman, Martin Calsyn, Leeza Pachepsky, Andrew Phillips, Rich Williams, Andreas Heil
Next, I wandered over to a mega-booth from Microsoft Research Cambridge called Science for the 21st Century, featuring no fewer than six demos. There was a lot to absorb, so before diving in, I found Stephen Emmott , director of the lab's European Science Initiative , to get a quick overview. In...
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on 03-05-2008
Filed under: 2008, Research, TechFest, Microsoft, European Science Initiative, Cambridge, Stephen Emmott