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Faculty Preparation: Professional Development
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Learning Activities: Lab
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Presentation Materials: Audiovisual Content
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Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
- 09/12/2007
Feng Zhao from Microsoft talks about the challenges in building a portal for sensors world-wide.
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Early Experience Prototyping a Scientific Data Server for Environmental Data
- 09/11/2007
Catharine van Ingen from Microsoft talks about early experience prototyping a scientific data server for environmental data.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – A Virtualization Architecture for Wireless Network Cards
- 01/29/2007
In this video presentation, Ranveer Chandra, from Cornell University, discusses MultiNet: the design and applications of virtualizing a wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Self Management and Security
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research, that discusses troubleshooting mesh networks. She talks about topics such as why is it so slow, cordless phone interference, neighbors dropping traffic, MAC misbehavior, too much user traffic, routing and TCP problems.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Path Selection and Testbed Studies
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Richard Draves, Microsoft Research, that discusses routing in multi-radio and multi-hop wireless mesh networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Understanding and Increasing Mesh Capacity
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Jim Kajiya, Microsoft Research, that discusses software steerable antennas. Jim discusses topics such as why use software steerable antennas and the challenges for steerable antennas in mesh networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Large-scale Wireless Meshes - Architecture & Techniques
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Victor Bahl that discusses how and what they are doing regarding inter-home communications and community networks. He talks about the mesh networking system they are building and how everything fits together.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Keynote: A Global Perspective on Mesh Networking
- 01/15/2007
This video contains the keynote presentation from Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer. It contains demos and a question and answer session.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Opening Remarks and Summit Goals
- 01/15/2007
This video presentation contains the opening remarks and summit goals for the session as well as introduces the attendees.
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Presentation Materials: Demo
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Presentation Materials: Slides
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Ownership Transfer in Universe Types
- 10/31/2007
This presentation was given at the ooPSLA 2007 conference by Peter Müller (Microsoft Research) and Arsenii Rudich (ETH Zurich).
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Establishing Object Invariants with Delayed Types
- 10/31/2007
This presentation was given at the ooPSLA 2007 conference by Manuel Fähndrich and Songtao Xia from Microsoft Research.
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Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
- 09/12/2007
Feng Zhao from Microsoft talks about the challenges in building a portal for sensors world-wide.
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Early Experience Prototyping a Scientific Data Server for Environmental Data
- 09/11/2007
Catharine van Ingen from Microsoft talks about early experience prototyping a scientific data server for environmental data.
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Academic Days on Game Development 2007 – Assessment: How to Find Out if What You’re Teaching is What They’re Learning
- 05/14/2007
This presentation was given by Jamie Cromack at the Academic Days on Game Development conference. The session offers a primer on some common assessment practices in higher education classrooms that involve computer science and computational sciences.
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Microsoft Academic Days on Windows & Embedded Computing – Microsoft and Robotics: An Academic Perspective
- 05/08/2007
This talk will discuss how Microsoft has approached robotics from an academic perspective. It will explain Microsoft’s rationale for supporting robotics research and robotics-enhanced education, touching on a selection of our partnerships with various universities over the years.
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Microsoft Academic Days on Windows & Embedded Computing – SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time
- 05/07/2007
This presentation provides a SensorWeb overview, shows tools to use SensorMap and discusses writing programs to use SensorMap.
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AEGONT: Aegean Ontology Environment on .NET Platform
- 04/04/2007
AEGONT was a research project funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge to create an ontology development environment on .NET platform. It uses the strengths of .NET framework such as remoting, web services, XML parsers, etc.
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Integrated Healthcare Information Services through Mobile Telephony (MSR Digital Inclusion Project)
- 04/04/2007
This presentation talks about how mobile and wireless technologies can be applied to the benefit of under-served communities.
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Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology for the “other” 4 Billion
- 04/04/2007
This presentation talks about Microsoft’s Digital Inclusion Program which is the first program targeted specifically at the digital divide.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Troubleshooting Wireless Mesh Networks
- 02/08/2007
The focus of this presentation is gathering and distribution data, cleaning data and fault isolation and diagnosis. This material looks at the advantages and challenges of fault diagnosis framework.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Wireless Mesh Networks: Opportunities & Challenges
- 02/08/2007
This presentation discusses the motivation for residential broadband, the viability and challenges it faces, some solutions, looks at testbeds and trials and presents some conclusions.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Self Organizing Wireless Mesh Networks
- 02/08/2007
This presentation discusses what is a mesh network, some of the problems associated with it, investigates current technologies, looks at how wireless devices affect mesh performance and conclusions from the studies.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Spectrum Etiquettes for Short Range Wireless Devices Operating in the Unlicensed Band - A Proposal
- 02/08/2007
This presentation looks at spectrum etiquettes, WiFi performance data, design criteria, constraints and limitations and an etiquette proposal.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
- 02/01/2007
Capacity improvement is one of the principal challenges in wireless networking. We present a link-layer protocol called Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping, or SSCH, that increases the capacity of an IEEE 802.11 network by utilizing frequency diversity. SSCH can be implemented in software over an IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Comparison of Routing Metrics for Static Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
- 01/31/2007
In this paper, we conduct a detailed, empirical evaluation of the performance of three link-quality metrics – ETX, per-hop RTT, and per-hop packet pair – and compare them against minimum hop count. We study these metrics using a DSR-based routing protocol running in a wireless testbed.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
- 01/30/2007
We present a new metric for routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless networks. We focus on wireless networks with stationary nodes, such as community wireless networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card
- 01/30/2007
In this paper, we propose a software based approach, called MultiNet, that facilitates simultaneous connections to multiple networks by virtualizing a single wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – A Virtualization Architecture for Wireless Network Cards
- 01/29/2007
In this video presentation, Ranveer Chandra, from Cornell University, discusses MultiNet: the design and applications of virtualizing a wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Self Management and Security
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research, that discusses troubleshooting mesh networks. She talks about topics such as why is it so slow, cordless phone interference, neighbors dropping traffic, MAC misbehavior, too much user traffic, routing and TCP problems.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Path Selection and Testbed Studies
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Richard Draves, Microsoft Research, that discusses routing in multi-radio and multi-hop wireless mesh networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Understanding and Increasing Mesh Capacity
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Jim Kajiya, Microsoft Research, that discusses software steerable antennas. Jim discusses topics such as why use software steerable antennas and the challenges for steerable antennas in mesh networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Large-scale Wireless Meshes - Architecture & Techniques
- 01/29/2007
This video contains a presentation from Victor Bahl that discusses how and what they are doing regarding inter-home communications and community networks. He talks about the mesh networking system they are building and how everything fits together.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Opening Remarks and Summit Goals
- 01/15/2007
This video presentation contains the opening remarks and summit goals for the session as well as introduces the attendees.
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Gaming Resource Toolkit 2006: Trends of Gaming in CS and Industry
- 12/13/2006
Computer Science in the United States is seeing a huge drop in enrollment for both men and women. In a hope to reverse that trend and keep computer science exciting, Microsoft is looking at how computer gaming can make the curriculum more compelling.
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Reference Materials: Readings
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
- 02/01/2007
Capacity improvement is one of the principal challenges in wireless networking. We present a link-layer protocol called Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping, or SSCH, that increases the capacity of an IEEE 802.11 network by utilizing frequency diversity. SSCH can be implemented in software over an IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Comparison of Routing Metrics for Static Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
- 01/31/2007
In this paper, we conduct a detailed, empirical evaluation of the performance of three link-quality metrics – ETX, per-hop RTT, and per-hop packet pair – and compare them against minimum hop count. We study these metrics using a DSR-based routing protocol running in a wireless testbed.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – A Multi-Radio Unification Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
- 01/31/2007
We describe the design and implementation of MUP, and analyze its performance using both simulations and measurements based on our implementation. Our results show that under dynamic traffic patterns with realistic topologies, MUP significantly improves both TCP throughput and user perceived latency for realistic workloads.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
- 01/30/2007
We present a new metric for routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless networks. We focus on wireless networks with stationary nodes, such as community wireless networks.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card
- 01/30/2007
In this paper, we propose a software based approach, called MultiNet, that facilitates simultaneous connections to multiple networks by virtualizing a single wireless card.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Troubleshooting Multihop Wireless Networks
- 01/30/2007
In this paper we propose a new direction for research on fault diagnosis in wireless networks. Specifically, we present a diagnostic system that employs on-line trace-driven simulations to detect faults and perform root cause analysis.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Optimizing the Placement of Integration Points in Multi-hop Wireless Network
- 01/29/2007
In this paper, we explore the placement problem under three wireless link models. For each link model, we develop algorithms to make informed placement decisions based on neighborhood layouts, user demands, and wireless link characteristics.
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance
- 01/29/2007
In this paper, we address the following question: given a specific placement of wireless nodes in physical space and a specific traffic workload, what is the maximum throughput that can be supported by the resultant network?
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Mesh Networking Academic Resource Toolkit 2005 – Mechanically Steerable Antennas Using Dielectric Phase Shifters
- 01/29/2007
In this paper, we show that a movable dielectric slab placed close to a coplanar waveguide (CPW) can be used as a phase shifter. The effective dielectric constant is calculated as a function of slab height and the characteristics of the basic 4-element array antenna is simulated.
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Gaming Resource Toolkit 2006: Computer Gaming To Enhance CS Curriculum - Strengthening the CS Pipeline
- 12/07/2006
This paper provides a summary of the problem, a proposed solution and an invitation for more research. It also describes the assets Microsoft and its partners in academia and industry provide or plan to provide.
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The Future of Information Technology: Growing the Talent Critical for Innovation
- 12/01/2006
This paper discusses the multiple causes for the decline in interest in the computing professions, a fast approaching crisis in competitiveness and a multi-pronged solution strategy to address this issue.
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Microsoft Research Lecture Series
- 06/28/2006
Visit this Microsoft Research site to see online lectures from Malcolm Gladwell, Geoffrey Moore, Neil Gaiman, John Battelle and Michael Eric Dyson.
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Technical Reports & Papers from Microsoft Research
- 06/28/2006
Search the publication database for published papers and technical reports authored by Microsoft researchers. In addition to the numerous publications and reports there are several Journals and Series of information.
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