My guest for this week's Perspectives show is George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia and one of six researchers recently funded by Microsoft Research through its Computational Challenges of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) program.

My guests for this week's Perspectives show are Barbara Willett and Nigel Snoad. Barbara works for Mercy Corps in Afghanistan, as the design, monitoring, and evaluation manager for a number of agricultural development programs. Nigel Snoad is a lead capabilities researcher for Microsoft Humanitarian ...

Caroline Arms is an information technologist who came to the Library of Congress to work on the American Memory project. The challenge of preserving digital content captured her interest, and her work since has focused on understanding and promoting formats that raise the probability that content...

WinFS was an ambitious effort to embed an integrated storage engine into the Windows operating system, and use it to create a shared data ecosystem. Although WinFS never shipped as a part of Windows, many of the underlying technologies have shipped, or will ship, in SQL Server and in other products....

With the new OpenSearch-based federation capability in Search Server 2008, you can integrate any external search service that can expose results as an RSS feed. In this podcast Jon Udell discusses search federation with Richard Riley and Keller Smith.

Introducing Live Mesh

In this audio version of a Channel 9 video, Ray Ozzie discusses his role as Microsoft's chief software architect, and the role of Live Mesh as one aspect of an emerging Internet-oriented platform.

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft.  He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the  transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration, search,...

In this podcast, MSR researcher Catharine van Ingen and Berkeley micrometeorologist Dennis Baldocchi talk with Jon Udell about their collaboration on www.fluxdata.org, a SharePoint portal to a scientific data server. The server contains carbon-dioxide flux data gathered from a worldwide network of...