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As a favor to her brother Burton, Flynne Fisher fills in on a mysterious job beta testing a new game.

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing?

The future of business, work, and the economy in a digital world. In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose, and win at Jeopardy!.

Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory.

Please join us for a panel discussion on computational design, diversity and the changing face of modern developers with guest speakers from our Ambient Creativity hackfest.

Success, both in one�s career and in life, can be difficult to measure and even harder to define.

Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work.

Orbit-shifting innovation happens when an area that needs transformation meets an innovator with the will and the desire to create, and not follow, history.

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens� lives?

Winning from Within by leadership and negotiation expert Erica Ariel Fox presents a contemporary approach for getting more of what you want, improving relationships, and enjoying life�s deeper

For her book, Haunted Empire, former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs's death.

Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip.

For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists.

The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning We swim in an ocean of

Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework�the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer

One of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under-appreciated tool�one that has been available to us since childhood.

Arthur Winfree was one of the pioneers who postulated that several diseases are actually disorders of dynamics of biological systems.

Probabilistic programming is a general-purpose means of expressing and automatically performing model-based inference.

This video introduces the topic of running virtual machines in Microsoft Azure for scientific research.

Emotion is vital to physical and mental health - influencing the functioning of almost every organ in our body, including our brain and "how we feel." I have been leading in creating new

Microsoft Research Asia Big Data Lecture Series cover the area of big data in a both in-depth and comprehensive way.

Hear Carnegie Mellon professor Manuela Veloso describe her research on making robots capable of an autonomous cycle of perception, cognition and action, and the journey to understand how algorithms

The decade-old Internet search result pages, manifested in the document-centric form of "ten blue links," are no longer sufficient for Internet search users.

Watch a demonstration of CodaLab by Evelyne Viegas, director, Microsoft Research, and Isabella Guyon, president, Chalearn.

Hear about the the image-based ecological information system collaboration from Kristin Tolle, director, Microsoft Research, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, associate professor, University of Illinois at

Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, opens the Faculty Summit by highlighting major efforts at Microsoft Research.

Microsoft Azure provides researchers with convenient, cost-efficient, on-demand data analysis and collaboration—in the cloud, helping researchers accelerate the rate of scientific insight and

Big Dream is documentary film that follows the stories of seven young women in technology fields around the globe.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can facilitate and accelerate data analysis and scientific research by enabling researchers to perform machine learning over data in the cloud and deploy machine

Microsoft Research has joined forces with the Federal University of Minas Gerais, home to one of Brazil’s foremost computer science programs, to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of traffic