Microsoft Research has organised numerous events throughout the year for academics. The goal of these events was typically to provide academics with an opportunity to learn about Microsoft research and technologies quickly and efficiently, without having to endure any marketing content. Many of these events were recorded. You can access the content for these events by following one of the relevant links below.

Embedded Systems RFP Final Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 7–8 September 2004

Microsoft Research Seminar Series - Security Workshop 2004

Cologne, Germany, 2–4 June 2004

Microsoft Research Academic Days 2004

Istanbul, Turkey, 26–28 May 2004
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 24–26 April 2004
VilaMoura, Portugal, 18–21 May 2004
Barcelona, Spain, 24–26 May 2004
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 21–23 April 2004
Oslo, Norway, 20–22 April 2004
Israel, April 21–22, 2004
Chantilly, France, 19–21 April 2004
Dublin, Ireland, 13–16 April 2004

Microsoft Research Academic Days 2003

University of Cape Town, South Africa, 23–26 November 2003
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 19–20 November 2003
Germany, 12–13 November 2003
Budapest, Hungary, 10–11 November 2003
Turin, Italy, 29–30–1 September–October 2003
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 25–27 June 2003
Москва, 15-17 июня 2003 г. (in Russian)
Madrid, del 12 al 14 de Mayo de 2003
Copenhagen, Denmark, 12–14 May 2003
Munich, Germany, 7–8 April 2003
Paris, France, 17–19 March 2003

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2003

Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 15–17 July 2003

This three-day event tried to answer some of the questions frequently asked to Microsoft on the future of computing. All talks focussed on a specific subject from the point of view of the evolution of computing in the future.

Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP) Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 25–27 June 2003

There were two components to this workshop: one section of material was on the details of integrating tools into VS .NET, a second section was a series of brief informal talks by Microsoft Research Cambridge researchers and also by attendees. The goal of the second section was to stimulate discussion about people’s current activities. The general theme of this second section was ‘The most interesting thing I’ve done or read about this year’ (related or not related to Microsoft technologies).

Essential .NET: Building Applications and Components with C#

Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 13–15 May 2003

Essential .NET presented critical issues required to build applications for Microsoft’s .NET platform and the Common Language Runtime (CLR) using the C# programming language. The course had been designed for programmers who already had experience with an object-oriented programming language such as C++ or Java. This course was for the developers of the eScience/GRID community.

Software and Web Engineering in Microsoft .NET Environment

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 25–28 March 2003

This four day event concentrated on software engineering in the .NET framework. We tried to answer the question ‘how does Microsoft produce software?’.

Systems Administrators in Higher Education Community Event

Sonning & Reading, United Kingdom, 18–19 March 2003

Microsoft encouraged the creation of a Community of System Administrators from academic Institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An initial kick off event was held on 18 and 19 March 2003 in Reading, UK for approximately 50 delegates.

Microsoft Embedded Systems Crash Course

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23–26 September 2002

This four day event concentrated on Windows embedded systems including Embedded XP and Windows CE .NET.

MSRC Summer Research Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 9–11 September 2002

This was a workshop for researchers using Microsoft technologies in their research.

Seminar Series: Security Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 4–6 November 2002

Seminar Series: SQL Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16–17 June 2002

The goal of this workshop was to bring together experts from different fields of database research in order to analyse and discuss new trends and developments in data access and processing to better support new application domains. The workshop was meant as a forum for discussions and communication about ongoing research.

Second Microsoft .NET Crash Course

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 25–28 March 2002

A workshop for Faculty and PhD students on the technologies embraced by the Microsoft .NET platform. This four-day workshop provided attendees with a firm understanding of the .NET architecture, its components and its implementation from Microsoft. Course materials stressed the technical details that are of interest to computer scientists. The workshop included an introduction to the Shared Source version of the CLI. This is a source code version of the CLI (ECMA standard 335) and C# (ECMA standard 334) that meets the ECMA standards and which will be made available for academic research and teaching, described here.

Seminar Series: BizTalk Workshop

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13–15 February 2002

Two of the design architects working in the product group in Redmond, presented details of the XLang internal language used in the current (and future) implementations of BizTalk Server.

Microsoft .NET Crash Course for Faculty and PhD students V1

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3–7 September 2001

Windows 2000 Source Code Training

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3–5 November 1999

3-day training course for Windows 2000 Source Code licensees.

Microsoft Research European Briefing, Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 26–27 April 1999

A symposium for invited guests to hear directly about our research interests and activities.