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Bahl Achieves Alma Mater’s Distinction Bahl Achieves Alma Mater’s Distinction
In Boston on April 17, Victor Bahl, director of Microsoft Research’s Mobile Computing Research Center, will be honored as one of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Distinguished Alumni.
17 April 2012
Multiplayer Gaming for Smartphones Multiplayer Gaming for Smartphones
Switchboard, developed at Microsoft Research Redmond, shows how combining smartphones with the cloud could create a mobile-gaming paradise.
28 June 2011
Tuning Smartphone Performance Tuning Smartphone Performance
The first-ever study of data traffic as observed on smartphones delivers unexpected findings that help improve performance and open new avenues of research.
31 October 2010
Using Wi-Fi to Boost 3G Capacity Using Wi-Fi to Boost 3G Capacity
What kind of wireless Internet do you get when you cross 3G with Wi-Fi? Meet Wiffler, a system that takes a new approach to augmenting 3G-network capacity—by offloading traffic to Wi-Fi.
16 September 2010
Providing Private Packet Analysis Providing Private Packet Analysis
Researchers from Microsoft Research are presenting seven papers during SIGCOMM 2010, being held in New Delhi, India, from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3.
29 August 2010
Trying to Cure PC Insomnia Trying to Cure PC Insomnia
It’s energy-friendly to shut down PCs before leaving the office, but it’s hard to relinquish the convenience of remote access. Sleep Proxy offers a way to access idle machines while reducing power consumption.
19 April 2010
Troubleshooting Small Networks Troubleshooting Small Networks
It’s easier to create network tools for home users and small businesses than for large enterprise environments, right? Microsoft researchers tackle this assumption and explain why it’s actually harder to build troubleshooting tools for small networks.
19 January 2010
Bringing Agility to Data-Center Networks Bringing Agility to Data-Center Networks
For a group of researchers at Microsoft Research Redmond, when it comes to retooling the architectural rules for data-center networking, there’s no time like the present.
18 August 2009
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  • Motivations and Challenges for Building Great User Experiences from a Carrier’s Perspective, Kevin Lau & Jie Hui, T-Mobile U.S.A. (8/27/2012)
  • Trustworthy mobile health (mHealth) systems, David Kotz, Dartmouth University (08/7/2012
  • An overview of Multipath TCP and its applications, Costin Raiciu, University Politehnica of Bucharest (7/23/2012)
  • Detecting and Analyzing Voice Frauds and SMS Spam Activities in a Large Cellular Network, Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota (7/19/2012)
  • How far can client-only solutions go for mobile browser speed?, Zhen Wang, Rice University (6/5/2012)
  • Making the Mobile Web Fast, Matt Welsh, Google (6/1/2012)
  • LTE: Evolution and Convergence Titus Lo (Chairperson, IEEE Seattle Chapter; VP Neocific Inc. (1/26/2012)
  • Innovations in Mobility:Collaboration, Community, Context, and Computing, John Shen (Head of Research, Nokia, North America) (11/17/2011)
  • Design for the Mobile Experience, Rebecca Allen (Director of Nokia Research Center Hollywood) (10/4/2011)