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The field of computing is driven by scientific questions, technological innovation and societal demands. There is wonderful interplay—push and pull—among these three drivers.

Hear from the challenge sponsors of the Microsoft Research October 2014 hackthon, Nature Conservancy and Direct Relief, about why they need your help and how university students and challenge

Founded in 2005, the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre brings together the computer science expertise of Inria (the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied

Keith Hampton, associate professor, Rutgers University, discusses how community—online and offline—is being reorganized as a result of digital technologies that afford and constrain engagement.

Learn about the Lab of Things from Arjmand Samuel, senior research manager, Microsoft Research, and how Nilanjan Banerjee, assistant professor, University of Maryland, is building a touchless

Learn how easy it is to move beyond your desktop using the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a highly scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure for big data computations.

Get an overview of the 2014 International Women's Hackathon, during which more than 2,000 women from nearly 50 universities in 11 countries hacked to help U.N.

This video provides research scientists with a comprehensive introduction to using Microsoft Azure for hosting websites.

Cloud computing has changed the face of research by bringing almost limitless computational power and scalability to data-intensive research.

This is a demo video of a Windows 8.1 Universal application that automatically face tags your personal photo collection

Confused and frustrated by your difficult programming task? Let's have your IDE intervene before you get the chance to cause a bug in the software. Bored by your rote assignment?

Hear Anoop Gupta, distinguished scientist, Microsoft Research, and Andy Van Dam discuss online learning and talk about how Office Mix simplifies the creation of online lessons—including publishing

Learn how a multi-disciplinary team uses the Lab of Things as the platform to interconnect wearable sensors like gloves, headbands, and capacitive sensors built into clothing, bed sheets, and

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Microsoft are sponsoring the Innovation Challenge, a competition to develop data-driven software applications that help visualize and explore

David Hunter and Roy Zimmermann talk about the workshop that they will be running at SXSWedu on Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used tools by researchers to manage, analyse, and visualize their data.

Cloud computing provides researchers with the ability to develop and deploy easy-to-use services that are accessible and scale out effectively.

Tune in to watch the live stream of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit from Redmond, Washington, on July 14 from 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Pacific Time (noon to 8:30 P.M. Eastern Time).

Hear from Larry Heck, distinguished engineer, Microsoft Research, and Mike Calcagano, Microsoft, talk about the research going into Cortana, the Windows Phone 8.1 popular personal assistant.

In "Researchers in the Hall" segments, researchers participating in the Faculty Summit speak briefly about their current research.

Researchers from the University of Texas partnered with other researchers, federal agencies, and first responders to create the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE).

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) turns your computer into a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes into a seamless visualization of the Universe.

How might people use aggregated data and marketing intelligence to make decisions and allocate resources?

What can happen when a team of machine learning researchers collaborate with cardiologists and clinicians to take advantage of cloud computing? It may actually transform healthcare.

Watch the live stream of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit from Redmond, Washington, on July 14 from 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Pacific Time (noon to 8:30 P.M. Eastern Time).

Stroke Patient with Kinect

Managing director and distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, Eric talks about AI, which he describes as the crashing crest of the wave of computer science.

This video provides research scientists with in-depth information about using the very wide variety of services that Microsoft Azure offers.

This video provides a comprehensive but brief overview of Microsoft Azure for research scientists.

The focus of computing has been continuously shifting from programs to systems over the past decades.