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Top Researchers Inspire Interns
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Each summer, Microsoft Research facilities from around the world welcome a fresh crop of interns. Microsoft Research considers the intern program a vital part of its interactions with the academic world, with some facilities…
In the news | SSTD
Best Paper Award in SSTD 2011
For the paper, ‘FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees.’
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft Research virtualizes idle desktops to save power
Users are reluctant to use ‘sleep’ features because they break network operations, so Microsoft’s LiteGreen puts machine to sleep without any disruption.
In the news | CAV
Ball shares 2001 CAV Award
For contributions to software model checking, specifically the development of the SLAM/SDV software model checker that successfully demonstrated computer-aided verification techniques on real programs.
In the news | ACM
Elected 2001 ACM Fellow
For contributions to software analysis and defect detection.
In the news | ACM
2010 ACM Distinguished Scientist
The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the…
Enhancing Multilingual Content in Wikipedia
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Wikipedia has become one of the world’s largest and perhaps most powerful information repositories. But it is heavily English-centric. Making Wikipedia more multilingual inspired a Microsoft Research India team to develop a…
The Quest for Quality Searches
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) holds a conference, it must be difficult for participants to decide which sessions to attend, because creating easy, effective search…
In the news | CNN
New ways to double phone battery life
A handful of universities and research labs are working on simple changes to Wi-Fi technology that they say would result in your mobile phone battery lasting two to five times as long as it does today.