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Hey everybody! Welcome back to Ping! It's episode 225, which is maybe an area code, or just another number... Regardless - it's 225 episodes of what MSFTies are pingin' each other about. In This Weeks episode: [03:28] Microsoft's 'RoomAlive' transforms any room into a giant Xbox game[05:27]…

Hey everybody! Welcome back to Ping! It's episode 224, which is 2+2=4!!!. (Yes, we passed math - or at least Mark did). 224 episode of what MSFTies are pingin' each other about. [03:32] Cortana will never let you miss a concert by your favorite bands [05:18] Microsoft is trying to predict the…

Hey everybody! We loved hearing about your dress codes last show - so we go over your responses and jump into all sorts of other things that we're pinging each other about... [04:56] The Forza Horizon 2 Demo is Coming! [07:04] Alienware's 'Alpha' is a half-step toward Steam Machines [09:55] COOLEST…

Drawbridge is a research prototype of a new form of virtualization for application sandboxing. Drawbridge combines two core technologies: First, a picoprocess, which is a process-based isolation container with a minimal kernel API surface. Second, a library OS, which is a version of Windows…

Dr. Danny Dig is a Principal Investigator at the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC Illinois). UPCRC's stated mission is to make parallel programming synonymous with programming. Dr. Dig leads research on refactorings that retrofit parallelism into existing sequential code. How do…

Continuing on with our coverage of ICSE 2011, meet Dr. Victor Pankratius. Dr. Pankratius heads the Multicore Software Engineering investigator group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He also serves as the elected chairman of the Software Engineering for parallel Systems (SEPARS)…

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering,® is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering.…

Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the…

Typed Assembly Language (TAL) extends traditional untyped assembly languages with typing annotations, memory management primitives, and a sound set of typing rules. These typing rules guarantee the memory safety, control flow safety, and type safety of TAL programs. Moreover, the typing constructs…

Jamie Shotton is one of the inventors of Human Skeletal Tracking—he works in Microsoft Research Cambridge and dropped by the states, and our studio, to chat about this great invention. Human skeletal tracking employed in Kinect is a great example of collaboration between MSR and Microsoft product…