At the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today, leaders from Microsoft Research outlined their vision for how Microsoft Corp. and academics can collaborate on research projects to develop technological breakthroughs that will define computing and scientific research in the years ahead. Some...

Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams — and ultimately, those from other companies — turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (ExP) . Here is how the EXP team describes its...

Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp. are partnering with academia to create two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC), aimed at accelerating developments in mainstream parallel computing, for consumers and businesses in desktop and mobile computing. The new research centers will be located...

In an unusual twist, the very first company to license technology from Microsoft Research is now licensing it back to Microsoft. Inrix, based in Seattle suburb Kirkland, initially licensed predictive, real-time traffic technology from Microsoft Research in 2005. Since then, Inrix has built onto that...