We live in a culture that's verging on an obsession with training, says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research. It stops us from seeing what we—and those around us—can really do

The Fourth Paradigm" book is about a new paradigm for science based on data-intensive computing.

Microsoft Research is pursuing a family of projects called Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure to enable a new class of CPU-intensive, data-intensive applications for mobile devices.

Microsoft Research Asia is excited and proud to announce that four of its researchers—Dr. Baining Guo, Dr. Feng Zhao, Dr. Frank Soong and Dr. Wenwu Zhu—have been conferred the IEEE Grade of Fellow.