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Events and Announcements
Find out about the events we have organised or the
announcements we have made in Europe during the last few years.
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500,000,000 Years Later, Eating Patterns Persist
Rich Williams of Microsoft Research Cambridge is a member of a small
team who have looked back a half-billion years to identify food-web
patterns similar to those of today.
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Microsoft scientists
unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’
response to changing environments
The new technology unveiled today by Microsoft enables scientists for
the first time to obtain and analyse detailed behavioural information in
real-time.
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Scientists introduce new technique, set to revolutionise study of biology
November 2007 – In a paper published today in the scientific journal
Nature
Biotechnology, scientists outline a radical new technique for
modelling biological systems that could profoundly transform our
understanding of complex living systems.
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Professor of Quantum theories wins major international prize
October 2007 – In Paris on Oct. 16,
Giorgio Parisi,
world-renowned for his research into complex systems, received the
second annual Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft
European Science Award.
See also
press release in French.
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Microsoft Research Contributes up to €1 Million for
Exceptional PhD Research...
Microsoft Research, the Max Planck Institutes for
Computer Science and for Software Systems, and the Computer Science
Department at Saarland University today announced that Microsoft
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Making Computer Systems Reveal Biological Secrets
March 2007 – Andrew Phillips, a scientist based at Microsoft
Research Cambridge, is using programming-language techniques to
explore the frontier of biological systems.
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Microsoft Research Working with INRIA to Foster Fundamental
Advances
February 2007 – Microsoft Research, in conjunction with
the French research institute INRIA, is investigating new
avenues for fundamental research at the Microsoft Research-INRIA
Joint Centre, which recently was inaugurated just outside Paris.
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Microsoft Research Cambridge Celebrates
Computer Scientists of the Future
December 2006 – In a pair of events held Dec. 4-5,
Microsoft Research Cambridge demonstrated its ongoing support of
European students on track to make outstanding contributions to
computing and science.
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U.K. Professor Captures Inaugural European Science Award
International Computing Prize Goes to Cell Biologist
November 2006 – A computational cell biologist from the
University of Cambridge has won one of the largest international
prizes in science, the Royal Society and Académie des Sciences
Microsoft European Science award, it was announced today.
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Major new European science and computing award launched
April 2006
(The Royal Society) –
The Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences have announced the Microsoft European Science Award, a prestigious new award sponsored by Microsoft Research designed to
recognise and reward scientists in Europe who have made significant contributions to science by using computation.
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Computing to Accelerate New Era of Scientific Discovery, Say Microsoft Research Cambridge and Top Scientists
March 2006 – Microsoft Research Cambridge to provide 2.5 million euro for new research in key areas called out by top scientists.
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2020 – Future of Computing
March 2006
(Nature) –
This Nature web focus combines commentaries from leading scientists and news features analysis from journalists assessing how computing-science concepts and techniques may transform mainstream science by 2020.
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Computing the Future
March 2006 (Economist)
– Thirty-four of the world’s leading biologists, physicists, chemists,
Earth scientists and computer scientists, led by Stephen Emmott, of Microsoft
Research in Cambridge, U.K., have spent the past eight months trying to
understand how future developments in computing science might influence science
as a whole.
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Microsoft Research Awards
€1.8M to Europe’s Future Science Pioneers
February 2006 – Students receive up to €90,000 for research in computing and the intersection of computing and the sciences.
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Microsoft and INRIA to Establish New Institute for Computational Science in France
April 2005 – Research will focus on accelerating advances in IT security and reliability and on a next generation of computational tools for scientists.
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Microsoft Invests in Europe Through European Science Initiative
February 2005 – New Programme for Accelerating Advances in Science Establishes
Centres of Excellence, Extends Research Into New Areas and Helps
Develop Europe’s Intellectual Capital.
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Events
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Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2008)
Rostock, Germany
12–15 October 2008
The CMSB conference brings together modellers (computer scientists,
mathematicians and physicists) and biologists interested in a
systems-level understanding of cellular processes.
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9th
International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2008)
Göteborg, Sweden
22–28 August 2008
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Microsoft Research Summer School 2008
Cambridge, United Kingdom
7–12 July 2008
This year again, the Microsoft Research Summer School will be organised in partnership with the
Cambridge University
Computer Laboratory.
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International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
Norwich, United Kingdom
23–27 June 2008
The conference focuses on novel directions in networks research within
the biological and environmental sciences, computer and information
sciences, social sciences, finance and business.
- Formal Methods in Systems Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4–5 June 2008
The purpose of this meeting is to bring researchers together on the
application of formal methods to biology. This includes techniques for
the specification, development and verification of biological models, as
well as the design of tools to execute and analyze biological models.
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Computational and Systems Biology Course at CoSBi
Trento, Italy
10–14 March 2008
The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational
and Systems Biology (CoSBi) organises a course for PhD students,
advanced master students and early stage postdocs on methods and recent
results on different aspects of computational and systems biology.
Students with both experimental and computational/mathematical
background are encouraged to apply. Registered students will receive
prerequisite reading materials that will help them to follow the
lectures of the course no matter what background they have. All lecture
material will be made available to the students after the course.
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Microsoft European Science Award Ceremony 2007
16 October 2007
The second winner of the Royal Society Académie des
Sciences Microsoft European Science Award was
announced by Prof. Jules Hoffmann, President of the Académie des
Sciences, Prof. Martin Taylor, Vice-president of the
Royal Society
and Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International
at a ceremony in Paris. Professor Parisi has
won the prize for his work at the interface of computing and the
physical sciences.
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Biology without Borders
conference
Trento, Italy
2–5 October 2007
As we try to increase our understanding of biology, the focus of
research is shifting from parts to systems. This shift brings with
itself a blending of tools, scientific fields, expertise, and people in
order to properly address the new challenges that arise. Biology without
Borders recognises such shift and aims to embrace it with a unique open
format. Its focus will be theoretical and experimental approaches which
are allowing a more complete and system level understanding of biology
and which recognize the importance of evolution for achieving such
understanding.
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Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2007)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
20–21 September 2007
The CMSB conference brings together modellers (computer scientists,
mathematicians and physicists) and biologists interested in a
systems-level understanding of cellular processes.
- Microsoft Research Summer School 2007
Cambridge, United Kingdom
9–14 July 2007
The 2007 Summer School is organised in partnership with the
Cambridge University
Computer Laboratory and the
Cambridge Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning.
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Project Design Workshop, Ark 2010
Cambridge, United Kingdom
30 April–2 May 2007
Strengthening Biodiversity Science and Policy for Tropical Montane Cloud
Forests.
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Microsoft
European Science Award Ceremony 2006
3 November 2006
The first winner of the newly created Royal Society Académie des
Sciences Microsoft European Science Award was announced by Lord
Martin Rees, Jean-Philippe Courtois and Prof. Olivier Pironneau at a ceremony on 3rd November 2006.
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International Conference on Entertainment Computing
Cambridge, United Kingdom
20–22 September 2006
This conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for advanced
research and helps to determine the state of the art. Worldwide leading
experts from academia and industry will present their newest insights,
products and demonstrations.
- Microsoft Research Summer School for PhD Students
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4–7 July 2006
It includes a series of talks of academic interest and a posters session
which gives invited PhD students the opportunity to present their work
to Microsoft researchers and a number of Cambridge academics.
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International Symposium on Intelligent
Environments: ‘Improving quality of life in a changing world’
Cambridge, United Kingdom
5–7 April 2006
The symposium brought together top researchers from a variety of
disciplines, including artists, philosophers, computer scientists,
designers and sociologists, to discuss and debate how intelligent
environments can contribute to improving the quality of everyday life.
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Microsoft Research Security Workshop:
Security Challenges in a changing world
Hamburg, Germany
15–16 March 2006
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Towards 2020 Science
Workshop
Venice, Italy
30 June–1 July 2005
An international expert
group that identified the challenges, opportunities and the requirements
for computing to accelerate science over the next decade and beyond.
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International Forum on
‘Less is more – Simple computing in an age of complexity’
Cambridge, United Kingdom
27–28 April 2005
- International
Conference
on Converging Sciences
Trento, Italy
16–17
December 2004
A conference organised by the
University of Trento (Italy) and Microsoft Research.
Presentations are available online.
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