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The Games for Learning Institute, a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has announced the Game Design Challenge to build mini-games for learning on Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 3.1 platform.

Maden Musuvathi of Microsoft Research demoed a prototype product called Microsoft Cuzz, shorthand for Concurrent Fuzz testing, during PDC09.

DryadLINQ, from Microsoft Research, enables LINQ queries and operations to be run on a distributed clisters of machines.

A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.

Built on Microsoft cloud services technologies, NASA’s interactive “citizen-science” Web service lets anyone explore the Red Planet up close, while also contributing to Mars missions.

A new study from Microsoft Research shows the power of seeding your code with assertions.

Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft delivered a lecture titled Rethinking Computing at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Nov. 16.

danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England discusses her work with the findingEducation blog.

Project Natal, technology developed in part by Microsoft Research, has been named one of the 50 best inventions of the year by TIME.

Researchers are working on ways to make encrypted data easier to find.

After the Nov. 4 announcement of Microsoft Research’s Mt. Fuji Plan, Microsoft Research Asia demonstrated its commitment to one of the plan’s key pillars, collaboration with academia, during the 11th annual Computing in the 21st Century conference.

Microsoft Research software clones the environment running on a user's machine.

Microsoft Research Cambridge's work in Transactional Memory explores hot to make the most of many cores and threads while programming.

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, finished his 2009 Microsoft College Tour at the University of Washington on Thursday, demonstrating a few prototype technologies from Microsoft Research.

Microsoft Research has developed a next-generation computer that docks and undocks from a transparent glass display and enables not only pen and voice input but also incorporates touchless gestures and eye tracking to interact with information.