Compared to a thousand doctorates in computer science that come out of American universities every year, India produces 50. But the situation in India is improving, says P. Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research India.
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Here’s something cool: a Microsoft Research prototype called Research Desktop, “a project aimed to demonstrate Microsoft innovation in the area of content management and analysis and design of personal information management environments.”
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Simon Peyton-Jones of Microsoft Research Cambridge talks about why he is most proud of Haskell’s purity, type system, and monads.
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After the opening of Microsoft’s newest research lab, in Cambridge, Mass, I met the lab’s director, Jennifer Chayes. I have to say that Microsoft could hardly have picked a more dynamic and outgoing person to lead its first formal research facility in the Hub.
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People in the developed world enjoy instant access to information and take global connectivity for granted. But the world’s poorest people are still largely excluded from the economic and social benefits that widespread access to digital technology can bring. Some projects, including one from Microsoft Research, are seeking to redress this imbalance.
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Microsoft Research has hired social-network researcher danah boyd. Boyd, who spells her own name with lower-case letters, is probably the most high-profile academic in the world focused on the emerging Web and its social consequences.
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Microsoft celebrated the official opening of its newest research lab, in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 22 with a daylong symposium at MIT on the intersection of computer science and the social sciences.
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New lab in Cambridge, Mass., to focus on interdisciplinary research in partnership with region’s tech community.
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As Microsoft Research New England prepares for its opening symposium, to be held Sept. 22 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jennifer Chayes, managing director, outlines the progress made by her lab since its February unveiling.
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Nicholas Ayache, research director for the French national institute for research in computer science and automatic control, has been named the 2008 winner of the Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award.
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