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21 minutes, 20 secondsInside MSR's Chronozoom with Rane Johnson.Apr 04, 2012 at 5:08 PM
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How do you best present history that spans billions of years? That was the challenge taken on by MSR recently with Chronozoom. The resulting site presents a multimedia timeline using DeepZoom through HTML5 to explore significant events across a variety of curated collections from… -
WHOIS: Stevie Bathiche, Research Manager, Applied Sciences GroupToday we'll chat with Stevie Bathiche. Stevie is the Research Manager in Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group. His job is to discover and explore and right away when talking to Stevie you can tell he really /really/ loves his job. The ASG is behind some of the coolest innovations at Microsoft, from… -
WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social ScientistToday we'll chat with Danah Boyd. Danah is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., exploring social media. You can read more about Danah in this NY Times article posted this week. How did you get into technology?As a child, I remember playing a few computer games… -
48 minutes, 51 secondsMDCC TechTalk - Fun with type functionsNov 22, 2011 at 1:40 PM 2
by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft ResearchToday's most widely used technology, by far, for static program verification is the ubiquitous type checker. Alas, static type systems inevitably exclude some good programs; and allow some bad ones. Thus motivated, Simon describes… -
1 hour, 6 minutes, 54 secondsMDCC TechTalk - Classes, Jim, but not as we know themNov 22, 2011 at 1:40 PM 5
by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft ResearchHaskell is now quite widely used, but its most important contributions are the ideas that it embodies. In this talk Simon focuses on one of these ideas, namely type classes, with a few anecdotes and reflections along the way about the… -
15 minutes, 15 secondsPing 116: Custom Navs, PEGI on WP7, 3D on your 360, 3D headmounted displayThis week we are joined by special guest Larry "Lightbulb" Larsen. Watch and enjoy as we chat about these topics and more!A driving route made just for youPEGI rating for Windows Phone games3D coming to Xbox 360Headmounted 3D display -
57 minutes, 35 secondsTechTalk - Research in Software EngineeringJun 06, 2011 at 11:30 PM 3
by Nikolaj Bjorner, Senior Researcher, Microsoft ResearchThe Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research in Redmond works on several dimensions related to software engineering, including logical foundations, program verification, testing, analysis, empirical software… -
6 minutes, 47 secondsBenko and Daniel Wigdor on Rock & RailsMay 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM 0
I went to SIGCHI last week and met up with Benko and Daniel Wigdor who were presenting their paper on Rock and Rails, several new gesture paradigms being explored in Microsoft Research. If you're a Channel 9 regular, you already know Benko, but this is Daniel's first time on C9. Daniel is… -
21 minutes, 18 secondsPing 101: The Skype deal, Bill Gates & Fashion, Phishing on Facebook, Microsft ResearchWe did it! Well, actually YOU did it! Thanks to everybody who commented on Ping episode 100 and because of that great effort- we give stuff away on this episode! But before that, let's talk about some important Microsoft news:Microsoft buys Skype!Bill Gates makes a fashion statementPhishing on… -
14 minutes, 30 secondsMAUI: Mobile Assistance Using InfrastructureMay 04, 2011 at 2:50 PM 1
Alec Wolman is a senior researcher in the Networking Research Group at MSR. Alec has been working on a difficult problem; how to get the most from mobile computing devices. This involves several other problems; mobile computing devices often don't have the horse-power to drive computation-heavy…
