The Games for Learning Institute, a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has launched a Game-of-the-Week feature on http://g4li.org.

Networked social media provide infrastructure that allows information to flow far and wide. Politicians, celebrities, and corporations are jumping in with the hopes that they can get their message out. Sometimes messages do get widespread attention, but people complain that

Over the past decade, memory exploits have been a common form of computer attack, with heap spraying being the latest in a progression of methods. Nozzle targets heap spraying with innovations that reliably detect attacks.

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN.

Proving software free of security bugs is hard. Programming language support to ensure that programs correctly enforce their security policies would help, but, to date, no language has the ability to verify the enforcement of the kinds of policies used

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

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.

New visualization techniques, some from Microsoft Research Cambridge's Greg McInerny, have been applied to Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species."

Much of the power of modern Web comes from the ability of a Web page to combine contents and JavaScript code from disparate servers on the same page. While the ability to create such mash-ups is attractive for both the

Recommender systems are now popular both commercially and in the research community, where many approaches have been suggested for providing recommendations. In many cases a system designer that wishes to employ a recommendation system must choose between a set of