Microsoft Research, the software company’s laboratory, just awarded $1 million in grants to university researchers to develop the cellphone into a heathcare device. Ten institutions will split the money.
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Company studies thought patterns as part of battle against Apple, Google.
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Software makers have been seeking new ways of thinking as Moore’s law is quickly taking the chip world into a realm where there may be dozens or hundreds of processing units on a single chip. To help, Microsoft is setting up a joint research center in Barcelona, Spain, with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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Since October 2006, farmers in seven Indian villages have begun sending SMSes to the PC-based system at the back end and receive information regarding each farmer’s produce, their fertilizer outputs, issuance of harvesting permits and getting their pay stubs, all thanks to a project by Microsoft Research’s Technology for Emerging Markets group.
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With a few notable exceptions, research and infrastructure funding will just keep pace with inflation. This, says Daniel Reed, director of Microsoft Research’s Scalable and Multicore Computing effort, does not bode well for computational and computer science.
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Your next handheld could be see-through.
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The search system is independent of region and can support widely different address formats.
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Centre seeks solutions to challenges and opportunities coming with multicore processors.
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Stewart Tansley, a program manager for Microsoft Research’s Institute for Personal Robots in Education, discusses computer-science education.
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Microsoft decided to work on algorithms in India because educational institutions in the country have considerable expertise in theoretical computer science.
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