Behind the Code with Rob Short Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3502 Date: February 12, 2009 Occasionally the office of the CTO, David Vaskevitch, sits down with some of Microsoft’s most influential technical employees to capture their sto...

Adaptive Algorithms: Price-Setting & Overlay Routing Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3456 Date: February 12, 2009 Problems of sequential decision-making under partial information commonly arise in the design of algorithms for networked systems and the applicati...

Automating the Design of Visualizations Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3503 Date: February 12, 2009 In this colloquia, Agrawala presents a new two-step approach for building automated visualization design systems. The first step is to analyze the...

Behind the Code with Rico Mariani Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3514 Date: February 12, 2009 For eighteen years at Microsoft, Rico Mariani’s contagious enthusiasm for technology has inspired countless others to write better and faster code...

A Thin-Client Application Framework for Network-Centric Computing Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1733 Date: February 12, 2009 A thin-client programming model enables application development in an environment that utilizes the resource and computation capabilities of any ne...

Amazon.com: Differentiating with Technology Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3454 Date: February 12, 2009 Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com explains the dynamic technology behind Amazon.com’s store.  Also find out about the company&#039...

Amazon.com: A Data-Driven Enterprise Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3344 Date: February 12, 2009 Amazon.com has grown from a small bookseller to a place where you can literally find discover and buy almost anything. As the company has grown, ...

ADACS: An Automated System for Part Finishing Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 465 Date: February 12, 2009 Video presents the ADACS (Advanced Deburring and Chamfering System) workstation, a robot deburring tool designed by the Intelligent Systems of the...

Behind the Code with Rebecca Norlander Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 The computer world is often dominated by men, leaving little room for women. Despite this obstacle, Rebecca Norlander, a technical strategist for ...

Automatic Tools for Building Secure Systems Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3507 Date: February 12, 2009 Dawn Song explains why building a secure system is a complex and error-prone process in computing. System signers and developers face many challeng...

Activity Recognition: Context Aware Applications Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3456 Date: February 12, 2009 Accurate recognition and tracking of human activities is an important goal of ubiquitous computing. The goal is to create a personal portable devic...

All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Google Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 2971 Date: February 12, 2009 For the last quarter century, the KnowItAll project has focused on accumulating massive amounts of information from the web by utilizing domain-in...

Behind the Code with Peter Spiro Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 Don’t get a real job until you're 30. This is Technical Fellow Peter Spiro's advice, and something he fell just short of doing.&...

Anne Kiremidjian - Professor of Civil Engineering Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1740 Date: February 12, 2009 Anne Kiremidjian is professor of civil engineering at Stanford University and an expert in earthquake prediction and preparation. From the Series:I...

Behind the Code with Mohsen Agsen Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 A rolling stone gathers no moss. What it does gather, however, is a great deal of experience. During his long career at Microsoft, Mohsen Agsen ha...

Arctic Region Supercomputer Center Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1080 Date: February 12, 2009 Find out how the Arctic Supercomputer is helping scientists study and predict events around the globe.  The supercomputer, which t...

Automatic I/O Prefetching Hints through Speculative Execution Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3490 Date: February 12, 2009 Many applications, ranging from simple utilities to databases, manipulate data too large or infrequently used to be reliably found in memory cache...

Algorithms for Clustering Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3515 Date: February 12, 2009 Clustering problems arise in various contexts including classification, information retrieval and data mining. Roughly speaking, clustering refers...

3D Reconstruction Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 Take an in-depth look at the research of Ruigang Yang Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. His project de...

Accessible Information Technology in Education: Building Toward A Better Future Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 695 Date: February 12, 2009 Information technology (IT) is used in most educational settings. Students use a variety of IT tools such as email, websites, discussion boards, a...