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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...

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...

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...