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.NetMap
I’ve been using .NetMap from Marc Smith's team at Microsoft Research recently to help me visualise some relationships inside Excel. Some of my colleagues hadn’t seen the tool and suggested I wrote a quick post about it. The easiest way to use .NetMap...
Microsoft Announces European Search Technology Center
CANNES, France, and REDMOND, Wash. — June 17, 2008 — At the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival , Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to open a Search Technology Center (STC) in Europe in its fiscal year 2009. The new center will be designed...
Bill Gates shows Touch Wall at CEO Summit 2008
Bill Gates demonstrated a new hardware technology from Microsoft called Touch Wall yesterday at the CEO Summit 2008 .
Deepfish swims
Microsoft Live Labs Deepfish Technology Preview was also announced last week. Format: swf Duration: --:-- More details are available in the blog , overview and FAQ .
Stop surfing. Start zooming. IP Ventures launches ZenZui.
News of another start-up that is building on patented technology developed by Microsoft Research . ZenZui aims to transform the way people engage, consume and interact with Web content on a mobile device. ZenZui is part of the IP Ventures program that...
Let's not give up on our privacy
Interesting piece in the Mercury News from Dean Takahashi that highlights Microsoft's Cynthia Dwork 's work work on privacy preserving data analysis. As she says:- "I also believe that those of us alive now have very little privacy. It doesn't...
TouchLight licenced by Eon Reality through Microsoft's IP Ventures
Back in June I included a video of a Microsoft Research project called TouchLight in the keynote I gave at Eunis 2006 on how computation will affect the sciences and scientists . Afterwards I had several interesting conversations about how . It seems...
PhotoSynth is "super cool"
PhotoSynth is Microsoft Live Labs ' first major Technology Preview and the team has posted a sneak peek at the work which they’ll be demonstrating next Wednesday at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston. PhotoSynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object...
Craig's on Channel9 ...
Towards 2020 Science
In the summer of 2005, an international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen...
2006 PET Award Winner: “A Taxonomy of Privacy”
via Caspar ... Leading researchers in computer science, cryptography and law were recognised for their work at the intersection of technology and policy yesterday at the 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies . “We wanted to support a prize that...
eScience session at EUNIS 2006
Links to the deck and videos I used at the EUNIS 2006 conference in Tartu today. I used the presentation that Bill Gates gave at the SuperComputing '05 conference in November. Video about Microsoft Research Search for Breakthroughs in HIV Vaccine Design...
EU R&D
Amidst all of the recent argument about the EU's budget, I found this BBC chart interesting .... .... the EU spends more on administration than on research , and less than either Microsoft or IBM spend on research. I am by no stretch of the imagination...
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