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Following fast on the heels of its original BLINK app for Windows Phone 8 —which captures a burst of images when you take a photo so you can select the best shot— Microsoft Research Redmond is ...

VCC is a tool that proves correctness of annotated concurrent C programs or finds problems in them. VCC extends C with design by contract features, like pre- and postcondition as well as type ...

Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing your own new games. The core of the Kodu project is the programming user interface. The language is simple and ...

This is a short paper describing TLAPS, the TLA+ proof system being developed at the Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre. Opens in a new tab ...

How to install and use our quantum simulator Opens in a new tab ...

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center People love their smartphones—and they love to play games on them. On common smartphone software platforms, including Windows Phone, games ...

Optimally designing the location of training input points (active learning) and choosing the best model (model selection) are two important components of supervised learning and have been studied ...

The theory of algebraic data types is a valuable modeling tool for software verification. In the past, decision procedures have been proposed for both the full theory and its universal fragment.

When you store data in the cloud, you entrust the cloud provider with your data. You essentially cross your fingers and hope the provider won’t leak the data, tamper with it, or leave it vulnerable to ...

A Visual Studio 2010 editor extension that displays a list of the people who have checked in changes to the file currently open in the editor. Opens in a new tab ...

For Microsoft Research’s 20th anniversary, researchers and collaborators share their thoughts about the future of Microsoft Research and computer science.