Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies
Sam Stokes writes about Research in a way that is accessibile by students in College or considering their College/University Career or someone who is a life long learner!
What is Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure?
Wow, something useful from Faculty Summit 2011! Um, that didn’t come out right. This is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2011
How to NOT review a paper
Well I AM on vacation and thought that I would look through some of the other research sites, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2011
BarrelFish Free O/S From Microsoft: Use Declarative Language for Device Configuration, not C
In the paper titled: A Declarative Language Approach to Device Configuration The authors investigate...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/25/2011
BarrelFish Free O/S From Microsoft: Models are broken
As the Global Warming/Climate Change researchers have shown to the world: Modeling doesn’t map...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/22/2011
BarrelFish Free O/S From Microsoft: Current MultiCore OS Benchmarks measure wrong thing
Ok, that isn’t what the paper says, it is what I said. To quote the paper: “We argue...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/20/2011
Barrelfish Free O/S funded by Microsoft: Discussion of early experience with BarrelFish
Looking for that Master Thesis? Tired of that Linux versus Microsoft battle, want to clear your...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/18/2011
100 BarrelFish O/S on the Wall, take one down, 99 BarrelFish O/S on the Wall!
Just makes you hum that famous old song doesn’t it? But what is odd, is that to read the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/16/2011
Nemesis, a free operating system with principles
Really? This is looks like an older “new” operating system, see it at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/15/2011
People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often!
bHey yo, let’s go! Hey! Yo! Let’s! Go! It’s time to take a look at the Imagine Cup...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/12/2011
This is the end, my friend, of cache memory in multi-core operating systems!
Yep, multicore computers require lots of cache memory to store small amounts of the operating...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/10/2011
Exploring a Multicore OS: BarrelFish, a FREE OS From Microsoft!
Interesting paper on Multicore OS, https://www.barrelfish.org/barrelfish_sosp09.pdf, this is paper...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/08/2011
A model for Parallel and Incremental Computation
This is a good paper, but I say that with a caveat: Why did they use pseudo-code when F# or...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/07/2011
.NET Gadgeteer: Where is it?
Nice, one of the top projects on the Microsoft research site is the .NET Gadgeteer. Sooo,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/05/2011
FREE! FabFi: Build an internet network for $60 with stuff just lying around. Really
So I am goofing off as usual (hopefully my manager isn’t reading this) and I am looking...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/28/2011
Excel to the Cloud, to infinity and BEYOND!
What is BigData? Is it some strange religious cult? Will it be the next reality show? ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/27/2011
Computer Go, a different approach to games, can Deep Blue be taken down?
Deep Blue plays chess by rapidly playing advance moves before making a decision, or gets on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/21/2011
Meadows are like networks according to researcher at Microsoft
Ummm, does this mean that places like Yosemite have to reboot their meadows from time to time? Well...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/16/2011
Build your own Genes for free!
That’s right if you act now, you can build your own Genes for free, all you need is Microsoft Word...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
Free video on the new stuff in Silverlight 5
This is a long video, and if you are good at speaking and listening to English, then consider...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/14/2011
How Microsoft Research is doing work to save the planet
For all of of the articles: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/about/feature/green.aspx A true...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/14/2011
Cryptography, a brief, briefly
Ok, first of all, let me beg you to please sign-up for the Azure 30 day pass, keeping in mind that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/12/2011
Position-based Cryptography
Here is a video that explores the possibility of ‘Position Based Cryptography’ and the security...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
Performance modeling of applications like MediaPlayer
How do you create performance models for complex applications like MediaPlayer? Or better yet, what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
Free Image TOOL: Image Composite Editor, this is the latest version as of May 26, 2011
SWEET! A new Imagine Composite Editor as of May 26, 2011! What are the new features? Oops forgot the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/08/2011
Cellular computation, but not the kind you think it is.
Like most people you may have arrived here thinking this was an interesting article about the use of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/06/2011
Biological Computing: What do Cells compute?
“It's hard to co-exist with things that want to kill you.” Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes With the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/06/2011
Why take computer science? Save lives and the world
Alfred Thompson has written a series of good articles about programming, and why to take the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/04/2011
Medical Imaging, wow, check out this 3D image
First, you might get a firewall warning when you hit this link, it is Microsoft Research, so you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/03/2011
Need tools to search video or audio for specific phrases or words?
Some the more boring work courts and police agencies have to do is listening to audio from...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/31/2011
Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
Something to read over your morning coffee, tea or orange juice. Here are a few papers that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/25/2011
Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
Skipping over my usual blah Apple is not secure, blah blah, Chrome is the most insecure browser...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/25/2011
Free photo tool: HD View, the camera for the web! Gigapixel panorama is AWESOME!
Overview Build Gigapixel panoramas on your website! This is amazing, and I definitely see the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/23/2011
ISEF: Intel sponsors AWESOME contest for Teen Age Inventors and Scientists worldwide
The Society for Science & the Public holds a number of Science Fairs through out the world and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/20/2011
Research: Do you need a PhD to receive a Turing Award? Inventor of the Alto Computer
When you run across a person that has done much of the same things that you have done and gets a big...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/20/2011
Inside Microsoft: Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors (大型软件开发中的协调： 帮助和无益的行为)
An interesting paper found at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/19/2011
Glee: Drawing Graphs
Glee, a hit television show or a tool for extreme programmers? Could it be both? Well on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/17/2011
Human Antennas? Artificial Intelligence in Rabbit Ears? Where is my coffee? Holey Moley
Likely before your time, but in the old days of TV, some TVs had “rabbit ears” and if you held them...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/16/2011
Free Advanced Photo Stitching Tool
The Image Composite Editor allows you to perform advanced photo stitching, and the cost is right:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/14/2011
Buxton Collection: Check the odd and wonderful of Buxton’s brain
It’s the weekend, and that means time to just check out the past, think about the future, make the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/14/2011
Text messaging the new drunk driving? What is Microsoft Research saying about this?
The statistical presentations in this video were somewhat weird, seriously the researchers need to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/13/2011
NUI View on user interfaces
If you are a natural user interface researcher or just a hobbyist, then take a look at this...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/12/2011
Google Docs, OpenOffice versus Office 365
Here are some links to information about how to compare Office 365 with the competition: OpenOffice:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/12/2011
Free Mathematics Add-in for Word (including the “free” Word) and One Note
What the heck? If my trail version of Office times out and I just move to the free version of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
Microsoft Research helps you design a sound plan for your game: SongSmith
Hey Yo, games with no music in the background are boring. No sound effects: Boring. But...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2011
Free for educators and STEM-D students! A scratchpad for your musical ideas: SongSmith
SongSmith, this is cool beans, no kidding. If you are thinking about writing music as a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/07/2011