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Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network (1) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 2 weeks, 1 day ago permalink
We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals.

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Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon (2) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 2 weeks, 2 days ago permalink
Turns out, it is a small world. The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.

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Transforming Computer Science in the Gaming Age (1) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 3 weeks, 3 days ago permalink
Microsoft Research and academics use video-game-inspired courses to lure the next generation of computer scientists.

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- Jason said: games? i like GAMES!
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Microsoft Tries to One-up Google PageRank (2) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 3 weeks, 6 days ago permalink
Microsoft researchers and academic collaborators have detailed an idea it calls BrowseRank that seeks to bring more of a human touch to search rankings.

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A New Competitor to LCD (2) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
A novel pixel design from Microsoft Research promises to be faster and brighter.

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Exploring Ways to Make Search Better than Ever (3) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
Microsoft Research has contributed almost 19 percent of the papers accepted for presentation during SIGIR 2008, underscoring the organization’s commitment to make search a much more compelling experience than it is today.

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Worldwide Telescope: Two Months Old, a Million Downloads Strong (3) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
Twenty-nine years after man first walked on the moon, astronomical exploration retains an irresistible allure, as evidenced by Microsoft Research’s Worldwide Telescope, which attained its millionth download less than two months after being released.

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- Nate said: Nice! Yes, Firefox outpaces it, but it is a nice piece of software.
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India Project Addresses Location Search from a New Direction (1) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
Robust Location Search, a research project from Microsoft Research India, takes a new approach to solve unstructured or error-laden geospatial queries.

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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Modula-3 (1) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research Cambridge discusses why Modula-3 played a major role in popularizing the notion of type-safe programming and why Modula-3 is still vastly superior to programs such as Java.

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An Algorithm to Turn Melodies into Songs (2) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month ago permalink
New software from Microsoft Research creates chord progressions to accompany singers of all abilities.

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Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis (1) share digg
on Microsoft Research News and Headlines (5) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink
With the help of Microsoft Research, USC's Cyrus Shahabi is working to help scientists manage data to provide better results, reliability, and overall accuracy of data analysis.

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