http://en.redtram.com/ research.microsoft.com Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:21:56 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 3425 | Don't Set the Bar Too Low http://en.redtram.com/go/236284048/top100/ 236284048 We live in a culture that's verging on an obsession with training, says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research. It stops us from seeing what we—and those around us—can really do Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:01:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236284048/top100/ 3425 | A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing http://en.redtram.com/go/236284042/top100/ 236284042 The Fourth Paradigm" book is about a new paradigm for science based on data-intensive computing. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:01:27 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236284042/top100/ 3425 | Why a Cloudlet Beats the Cloud for Mobile Apps http://en.redtram.com/go/236284030/top100/ 236284030 Microsoft Research is pursuing a family of projects called Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure to enable a new class of CPU-intensive, data-intensive applications for mobile devices. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:01:06 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236284030/top100/ 3425 | Four Microsoft Research Asia Researchers Named IEEE Fellows http://en.redtram.com/go/236284014/top100/ 236284014 Microsoft Research Asia is excited and proud to announce that four of its researchers—Dr. Baining Guo, Dr. Feng Zhao, Dr. Frank Soong and Dr. Wenwu Zhu—have been conferred the IEEE Grade of Fellow. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:00:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236284014/top100/ 3247 | Dual Averaging Method for Regularized Stochastic Learning and Online Optimization http://en.redtram.com/go/236192613/top100/ 236192613 We consider regularized stochastic learning and online optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of two convex terms: one is the loss function of the learning task, and the other is a simple regularization term such as L1-norm Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:02:10 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236192613/top100/ 3425 | Computing Our Children's Future http://en.redtram.com/go/236192567/top100/ 236192567 Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, joined three other eminent educators and industry leaders in a piece written in conjunction with Computer Science Education Week. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:00:09 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236192567/top100/ 3425 | danah boyd: 'People Looked at Me Like I Was an Alien' http://en.redtram.com/go/236142029/top100/ 236142029 Microsoft researcher danah boyd talks about social networking, young people, and how the Web is more private than your home. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:32:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236142029/top100/ 3425 | Scientists, Lawyers Mull Effects of Home Robots http://en.redtram.com/go/236142020/top100/ 236142020 Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research is one of the scientists and legal scholars exploring the effects of the increasing number and variety of robots in our lives. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:32:46 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236142020/top100/ 3425 | Location-Based Social Networks Take Off http://en.redtram.com/go/236122134/top100/ 236122134 With leadership from Microsoft Research Asia, the first International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, held in Seattle on Nov. 3, was a rousing success. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:26:35 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236122134/top100/ 3247 | Building Reliable Data Pipelines for Managing Community Data using Scientific Workflows http://en.redtram.com/go/236122056/top100/ 236122056 The growing amount of scientific data from sensors and field observations is posing a challenge to "data valets" responsible for managing them in data repositories. These repositories built on commodity clusters need to reliably ingest data continuously and ensure its Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:23:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236122056/top100/ 3425 | Microsoft Lab Tests a Wikipedia of Average Joes http://en.redtram.com/go/236072092/top100/ 236072092 Dubbed EntityCube and now live to try out, a research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge pulls together biographical information on anyone found on the Web. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072092/top100/ 3425 | African Computer Scientists Recognized http://en.redtram.com/go/236072082/top100/ 236072082 Microsoft Research, TWAS, and AAS reward computer scientists showing potential to accelerate economic development in Africa. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072082/top100/ 3425 | UK e-Science 'Tony Hey Prize' for Best Student Paper http://en.redtram.com/go/236072074/top100/ 236072074 The 2009 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting introduces the Tony Hey Prize for the best student paper, named in honor of the outstanding contribution Hey, vice president of Microsoft Research's External Research division, has made to UK e-Science. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:52:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072074/top100/ 3425 | Video: danah boyd Discusses Youths' Online Behavior http://en.redtram.com/go/236072058/top100/ 236072058 danah boyd of Microsoft Research talks about the changes in young people's behavior when online, their attitudes to privacy, and the importance that might be placed upon building their identities online. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:52:32 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072058/top100/ 3247 | Learning in the Deep-Structured Conditional Random Fields http://en.redtram.com/go/235450507/top100/ 235450507 We have proposed the deep-structured conditional random fields (CRFs) for sequential labeling and classification recently. The core of this model is its deep structure and its discriminative nature. This paper outlines the learning strategies and algorithms we have developed for Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:47:54 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235450507/top100/ 3425 | Microsoft Targets Programming Newbies with New Vedea Visualization Language http://en.redtram.com/go/235186090/top100/ 235186090 Vedea is a prototype experimental language designed by Microsoft Research Cambridge that is aimed at helping users create interactive infographics, data visualizations, and computational art. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:54 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235186090/top100/ 3425 | Blueprints for Self-Assembly http://en.redtram.com/go/235186082/top100/ 235186082 Researchers are using tools from information theory and computer science to facilitate the automatic creation of nanoscale structures. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235186082/top100/ 3425 | Researchers Are Working on Ways to Make Encrypted Data Easier to Find http://en.redtram.com/go/235186074/top100/ 235186074 Recent advances in cryptography could mean that future cloud-computing services will not only be able to encrypt documents to keep them safe in the cloud, but also make it possible to search and retrieve this information without first decrypting it. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:45 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235186074/top100/ 3425 | Bing Maps Rolls Out Enhanced Aerial and Street-Level Views http://en.redtram.com/go/235186069/top100/ 235186069 Bing Maps is launching features that give users a new view of the planet, including a streetside and enhanced aerial view stemming in part from work within Microsoft Research. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235186069/top100/ 3425 | Video: Supernova Interview with danah boyd of Microsoft Research http://en.redtram.com/go/235186063/top100/ 235186063 danah boyd of Microsoft Research discusses how, while people might share a lot of their information online, often they're shaping what they hope we'll perceive about them. She also discusses how identity and perception are evolving in the Network Age. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:04:35 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235186063/top100/