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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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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on 07-24-2009
Filed under: Microsoft, Research, Semantics, Environment
I submitted few of my photos for the internal-to- Microsoft version of this photograph competition , few months ago. No surprise, mine didn't have a chance when they can get such gorgeous photographs ! Read More...
I didn’t know about it until last Friday when Alex Wade told me. Today, Microsoft announced the submission of GPLv2 code into the Linux kernel!!! Unbelievable. As Jim Zemlin characteristically said: “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted”. :-)) You Read More...
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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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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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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robk
on 02-26-2009
Filed under: Research, TechFest, Microsoft, 2009, Cairo, Trans-Bulletization, Motaz El-Saban, Center, Kareen Darwish, OCRLess, Innovation