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  1. Microsoft opens up online infrastructure to the research community 

    February 23, 2016

    As our lives become increasingly conducted online, the growth rate of data recording our daily activities has exploded. These records, which range from the details of our online social engagements to the graphs gathered by major search engine companies representing a snapshot of our collective…

  2. Microsoft Student Summer Camp embodies the hacker spirit 

    September 10, 2015

    Twenty years ago, the film Hackers gave that term a shady, illicit meaning. Now, geeks around the world are taking back the term “hacker,” restoring its original connotations of creativity and intellectual curiosity. Nowhere was that restoration more apparent than at the Microsoft Student Summer…

  3. Young coders compete in 2015 Beauty of Programming 

    July 10, 2015

    On May 27, 2015, Suzhou, a historic, scenic city in southeast China, hosted this year’s finals of the Beauty of Programming (BoP) competition, a creative contest among talented young programmers. Sponsored by Microsoft in collaboration with IEEE, BoP encourages contestants to use their programming skills…