Microsoft Research Connections has partnered with the Kent (Wash.) School District to provide ongoing support for students and teachers at the district’s tech academies... more »

A Microsoft Research New England study has found that parents often help their under-age children sign up for Facebook... more »

Martn Abadi, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science... more »

We ask the question: can network problems experienced by applications be identified based on symptoms contained in a network packet trace? An answer in the affirmative would open the doors to many opportunities, including nonintrusive monitoring of such problems on the network and matching a problem with past instances of the same problem. To this .. more »

An experimental research project from Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs asks students to rethink learning by combining social networking and search... more »

Students at Kent-Meridian High School and Mill Creek Middle School in Washington state learned about the relationship between their studies of science, technology, engineering, and math and work Microsoft researchers are conducting... more »

Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and computer scientist Alexander Szalay has been recognized by the Microsoft Corp. with a Jim Gray eScience Award... more »

This tool has been developed to assist readers of the paper “Explaining spatiotemporal dynamics in lambda-omega reaction-diffusion equations using absolute stability spectra of wavetrains”—written by Matthew J. Smith, Jens D. M. Rademacher, and Jonathan A. Sherratt and submitted to “Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena”—in understanding the numerical dy.. more »

The use of mathematical modelling in understanding and dissecting physiological mechanisms in plants has seen many successes. Notably, studies of the component interactions of the Arabidopsis circadian clock have yielded multiple insights into the roles of specific regulators at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level. In this article, I .. more »

Minwise hashing is a standard technique in the context of search for efficiently computing set similarities. The recent development of b-bit minwise hashing provides a substantial improvement by storing only the lowest b bits of each hashed value. In this paper, we demonstrate that b-bit minwise hashing can be naturally integrated with linear .. more »

Stephen Emmott and Lucas Joppa of the Computational Science group at Microsoft Research Cambridge will participate in the Eye on Earth Summit, a Dec. 12-15 event in Abu Dhabi organized to ensure effective global access to environmental data... more »

Six individuals from Microsoft Research have been named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery... more »

Work on modeling semantics in text is progressing quickly, yet there are few existing public datasets which authors can use to measure and compare their systems. This work takes a step towards addressing this issue. We present the MSR Sentence Completion Challenge Data, which consists of 1,040 sentences, each of which has four impostor sentences, .. more »

Microsoft Research Connections is partnering with danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England and the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit to investigate the implications of technology in human trafficking of minors... more »

In this paper, we study the problem of visual object retrieval by introducing a dictionary of contextual synonyms to narrow down the semantic gap in visual word quantization. The basic idea is to expand a visual word in the query image with its synonyms to boost the retrieval recall. Unlike the existing work such as soft-quantization, which only .. more »

Minwise hashing is a standard technique in the context of search for efficiently computing set similarities. The recent development of b-bit minwise hashing provides a substantial improvement by storing only the lowest b bits of each hashed value. In this paper, we demonstrate that b-bit minwise hashing can be naturally integrated with linear .. more »

The explosive growth of multimedia data on the Internet creates huge opportunities for multimedia advertising. In this tutorial, we present the techniques and technologies for Internet multimedia advertising. The tutorial aims at bringing together recent insights from the research on multimedia advertising that addresses the theoretical .. more »

Mark Abbott of Oregon State University was named winner of the 2011 Jim Gray Award, presented by Tony Hey, head of Microsoft Research Connections, in Stockholm on Dec. 5 during the eScience in Action Workshop... more »

A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation.. more »

We investigate dynamic channel, rate selection and scheduling for wireless systems which exploit the large number of channels available in the White-space spectrum. We first present measurements of radio channel characteristics from an indoor testbed operating in the 500 to 600MHz band and comprising 11 channels. We observe significant and .. more »