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Developed by a group of people at MSR Cairo, Mobicast is an experiment that allows users to sync and stream live video from a number of handheld portable devices (e.g., cell phones) and have those streams stitched together on the viewer-end, creating a single, larger image. We don't get out…

Developed by a group of people at MSR Cairo, Mobicast is a system that allows users to sync and stream live video from a number of handheld portable devices (e.g., cell phones) and have those streams stitched together on the viewer-end, creating a single, larger image. We don't get out to Cairo…

Dr. Cormac Herley spends most of his time thinking about why and how computer users reject security advice (from both fellow humans and software security warning prompts). Recently, his paper, "So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by…

Matt Scott of Microsoft Research walks us through Engkoo: the new “dictionary” vertical search of Bing in China. What makes this English-Chinese assistance tool unique is that it unifies human translation mined from the web, machine translation, and a language learning experience, into one easy…

Computer Scientists and MSR Researchers Wolfram Schulte, Herman Venter, Nikolai Tillmann, and Manuel Fahndrich join Erik Meijer for an Expert to Expert deep dive into the theory and implementation strategies inside of SPUR, a research Tracing…

JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on the web. As the great Douglas Crockford likes to say, JavaScript is both the world's most popular programming language and the world's least popular programming language at the same time.In this episode of Expert to Expert (to Expert),…

The guys over on LiveSide just spotted an update to ICE, the “Image Composite Editor” created by Microsoft Research. If you’ve never heard of this tool before, it’s pretty impressive. Basically, it’s the technology that’s used “under the hood” in Windows Live Photo Gallery to stitch photos together…

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie Lamport. Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport’s research…

Welcome to the latest installment of C9 Conversations. For this episode, we were very fortunate to get a chance to converse openly with one of the world’s preeminent mathematical logicians, the great Yuri Gurevich. Dr. Gurevich is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer…

I met with Microsoft's Chief research and Strategy officer, Craig Mundie, to discuss how science and information technology can solve the worlds biggest problems. He focuses on the environment and demonstrates work from the Computational Science Group out of Microsoft Research…