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.

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

Predicting user's action provides many monetization opportunities to web service providers. If a user's future action can be predicted and identified correctly in time or in advance, we can not only satisfy user's current need, but also facilitate and simplify

Data aggregation is a key aspect of many distributed applications, such as distributed sensing, performance monitoring, and distributed diagnostics. In such settings, user anonymity is a key concern of the participants. In the absence of an assurance of anonymity, users

There are three dominant business models in online advertising industry such as pay-per-impression (PPI), pay-per-click (PPC) and pay-per-action (PPA). With the growth of sponsored search, there has been a move from the PPI model toward the PPC model as it

Behavioural type and effect systems regulate properties such as adherence to object and communication protocols, dynamic security policies, avoidance of race conditions, and many others. Typically, each system is based on some specific syntax of constraints, and is checked with