I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft’s External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of what the team is doing. I had the honor/pleasure of working with some of the folks in the video. Although I have stayed in touch Read More...
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Savas Weblog
on 08-10-2009
Filed under: Microsoft, Research
This is another offering from my previous team and my good friend Bora (who I think is an upcoming star in Microsoft ). SciScope (see it live ) is a prototype web application that allows data discovery from across multiple distributed heterogeneous data Read More...
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Savas Weblog
on 07-24-2009
Filed under: Microsoft, Research, Semantics, Environment
Project Trident CTP is now available for download . Project Trident is a scientific workflow workbench MSR External Research has been working on for the past few years, which allows scientists to analyze large, diverse datasets. It’s built Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 07-14-2009
Filed under: Science, Cool Software, Research, SQL Server, Workflow
The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Read More...
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Dan on eScience
on 03-02-2009
Filed under: Science, Viz, Research, eScience, WWT
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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TechFest Live!
by
robk
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
Aditya Nori , a researcher in the Rigorous Software Engineering team at Microsoft Research India , just gave me a brief overview of his demo, entitled Specification Inference for Security, and as he made repeated references to the poster in his TechFest booth, I though it would be instructive to share...
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by
robk
on 02-26-2009
Filed under: Research, TechFest, Microsoft, 2009, infer, security, code, India, Aditya Nori, specification, Rigorous Software Engineering
Some of the demos featured in TechFest 2009 were submitted by the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center , and i got a chance to speak with a couple of Cairo researchers, Kareem Darwish and Motaz El-Saban, about their work. "We're trying to enable multilingual search," Darwish said, "in...
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TechFest Live!
by
robk
on 02-26-2009
Filed under: Research, TechFest, Microsoft, 2009, Cairo, Trans-Bulletization, Motaz El-Saban, Center, Kareen Darwish, OCRLess, Innovation