The eleventh annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit brought together more than 400 thought leaders from academia, government, and Microsoft to reflect on how current computing disciplines open new opportunities for research and development. Faculty Summit 2010 investigated compelling research topics such as Architectures of the Future, Natural User Interaction, Future Web / Web 4.0, and Accelerating Science. Learn more...

Design Expo 2010: Where Service Meets Social
Student teams from six top graduate design institutions showcased their prototype interaction-design ideas in this year’s Microsoft Research Design Expo. The teams’ design solutions reflect the theme “Service meets Social,” which focuses on the marriage of exceptional process and ideas. 
 

• Design Expo
• Feature Story: Fostering Student Innovation

Faculty Fellows for 2010
Microsoft Research recognizes seven new outstanding faculty members as the 2010 Faculty Fellows. These individuals were nominated by their universities and represent a selection of the best and brightest in their fields. The selected professors are exploring breakthrough, high-impact research that has the potential to help solve some of today’s most challenging problems. 
 

• Faculty Fellows for 2010
• External Research Blog: Faculty Fellows 2010

WorldWide Telescope Reveals Mars in 3-D
The latest version of the WorldWide Telescope has unveiled the largest, seamless spherical map ever made of the night sky. Provided through an on-going collaborative relationship with NASA, Microsoft has also released the most complete pole-to-pole coverage of Mars images available allowing WorldWide Telescope users to experience Mars in 3-D.  

• Download WorldWide Telescope
• Watch the video: Mars for the Masses
• Microsoft and NASA Bring Mars down to Earth through the WorldWide Telescope
• Microsoft Research Illuminates Night Sky and Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope