Hall of Fame Honors Elicit Smiles from Silicon Valley Researchers
Three of the five papers recently given Hall of Fame Awards from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems were written all or in part by researchers from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.  More...

Dryad: Programming the Datacenter
The Dryad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley makes it easier for programmers to make distributed applications analyze data concurrently over large-scale systems.  More...

New SIGOPS Chair Happy with SOSP 2007 Contributions
Doug Terry of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, the new chair of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, is delighted that his colleagues again will be playing a key role during this year’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.  More...

Microsoft Research’s Dwork Wins 2007 Dijkstra Prize
Cynthia Dwork, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, has been named co-winner of the 2007 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, one of the most prestigious in the distributed-system discipline.  More...

Web Search—With a Little Help from Your Friends
Nocturnal, a research project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, uses the power of one of the largest social networks, that of Windows Live Messenger, to improve Internet search results.  More...

Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley Powerhouse
As Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley lab prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary, Roy Levin, the facility's founding director, discusses its success to date — and that yet to come.  More...

Scalable Hyperlink Store: Making the Impossible Possible
The Scalable Hyperlink Store, a specialized, distributed database that spreads enormous amounts of Web data across a host of computers, may provide a way to make Web searching a whole lot more effective.  More...

Analyzing Complex Systems via Machine Learning
Moises Goldszmidt, a principal researcher within Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley lab, discusses his work in machine learning and its role in understanding large, complex computer systems.  More...

High School Students Peer into the Future
For a few dozen high school standouts in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Microsoft Research Valley Road Show provided an opportunity to preview the potential of tomorrow’s technology.  More...

Microsoft Research’s 2006 Silicon Valley Road Show May 2
Microsoft Research’s 2006 Silicon Valley Road Show, to be held in Mountain View, Calif., on May 2, will feature demonstrations of projects from Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley and Redmond labs.  More...

Rank and Relevance in Web Search
Moises Goldszmidt, a principal researcher within Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley lab, discusses his work in machine learning and its role in understanding large, complex computer systems.  More...