Microsoft Research

Andy Gordon and Karthik Bhargavan (researchers from Microsoft's research center in Cambridge, England) take us out to see "Lake Bill" back on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond where we avoid the geese and talk about their Web Services Security research and get a tour of their…

Jon Pincus and Hunter Hudson talk about "Spot the Bug," which is a little game they play inside Microsoft on a mailing alias.

In this second part, Jon and Hudson talk about how programming teams can get their code quality up.

Hunter Hudson, development manager, programmer productivity Research center, and Jon Pincus, senior researcher on Microsoft Research, sit down with Charles Torre to talk about spotting bugs and code quality issues in this three-part interview.

This is our last video from our trip to the San Francisco based "Microsoft Bay Area Research Center." We wanted to end up with the developer working on the MyLifeBits project. So, meet Roger Lueder and get a look at the inards of MyLifeBits. Hope you've enjoyed this look around at…

Gordon Bell has been a leading technologist for so long that we wondered "what did he miss?" If you don't know who Gordon is, he spent 23 years (1960-1983) at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of Research and Development. We all know the stories of people missing…

Here's another 24 minutes with Jim Gray. He's one of the big minds behind SQL Server. Terra Service. And so much more. In this conversation we talk about architecture of Terra Service, among other database-related things. "I should talk about some of my lunatic fringe views on…

Jim Gray is a distinguished engineer in Microsoft's Scalable Servers Research Group and manager of our Bay Area Research Center. That doesn't even start to do justice to the role Jim has played in the development of databases. You might know him as the guy behind Terra Service or Sky…

The interview with the gurus who work in the Bay Area Research Center continues. Here Jim Gemmell shows off a "sensecam" that'll capture pictures and other data in response to lighting and other changes.

Gordon Bell is one of the industry's top leaders and one of his most remarkable achievements, in our opinion, is the Comuter History Museum that's in Silicon Valley (it's about a block away from Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, CA). If you visit Silicon Valley, it's highly…