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Mike Calcagno, General Manager, Bing Experiences, Microsoft, and Larry Heck, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research, discuss the evolution of Cortana and building a better digital assistant.

Josephine Cheng interviews Danny Dig, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Oregon State University, about his research on enabling programmers to change very large computing systems that otherwise

Erin Solovey, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Drexel University, and Andrew Begel, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, discuss their research on cognitive workload in the areas of driving

Anoop Gupta, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research, and Andy van Dam, Professor of Technology & Education, Brown University, discuss Office Mix, blended learning, and advancements in online

Keith Hampton, Associate Professor of Communication, Rutgers University, discusses his research on how technology impacts society. microsoftfacultysummit.com

Arjmand Samuel, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research, and Nilanjan Banerjee, Assitant Professor, Computer Science, University of Maryland, discuss their research on improving the

Kristin Tole, Director, Environmental Science, Microsoft Research, discusses how machine learning applies to researching animals in the wild, and the contributions of "citizen science." And Tanya

Josephine Cheng interviews Jack Stankovic, BP American Professor, University of Virginia, discusses the future of wireless sensors and their use to detect medical problems, and Manuel Hermenegildo

Researchers receive their Faculty Fellows Awards from Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Head of Microsoft Research. microsoftfacultysummit.com

The topics in this video are: - Back to the Future: The Second Age of Computing Is Ending (Burger) - Quantum Leaps in Computing (Svore) - "Mobilizing" Healthcare (Tan) - Crowds Are People Too!

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

Josephine Cheng interviews Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington, who discusses the challenge of extracting knowledge from the plethora of big data technology has made available.

Architects draw detailed blueprints before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Programmers and software engineers seldom do. A blueprint for software is called a specification.

Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President and Head of Microsoft Research, speaks at Faculty Summit 2014. microsoftfacultysummit.com

During Microsoft's annual Faculty Summit, universities from around the world send teams of students to present projects with potential real-world impact.

Learn ho Nilanjan Banerjee from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, uses the Lab of Things as the platform to interconnect wearable sensors like gloves, headbands, and capacitive sensors

Microsoft Research "lets the dogs out" on stage during Harry Shum's 2014 Faculty Summit keynote.

Trishul Chilimbi, Partner Research Manager for Microsoft Research, discusses the possibilities of how artificial intelligence can enhance our lives. research.microsoft.com

Trishul Chilimbi, Partner Research Manager for Microsoft Research, discusses Project Adam, and how deep neural networks have enabled large-scale computer image recognition with astounding accuracy.

Project Adam is a new deep-learning system modeled after the human brain that has greater image classification accuracy and is 50 times faster than other systems in the industry.

People increasingly are consuming live sports with a second screen in their hands—a phone, a tablet, or a computer—because they need more information to stay focused.

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).

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

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

This video by the Association for Computing Machinery reviews the achievements of Leslie Lamport, recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

Larry Larsen speaks with Doug Burger about the findings of a Microsoft Research and Bing research project that equipped servers with reconfigurable hardware, in the form of field-programmable gate

Microsoft researcher Doug Burger discusses the significant increase in datacenter efficiency based on the new era of programmable hardware.

In this lecture from Microsoft TechFest 2014, Victor Bahl, principal researcher and director of the Mobility and Networking Research Group, explains how Microsoft Research is building on its Redmond

The Windflow project uses aircraft in flight as a vast sensor network to infer atmospheric conditions with greater accuracy.

The world is becoming more urbanized.