In few years, they will be creators of innovative start-ups, recognised researchers, or, why not, even heads...

This is another really nice piece on the power of cloud computing. My colleague Mark Drapeau, Director of...

For the second year Microsoft Research in Cambridge opened its doors to an audience of press, academics,...

Microsoft Innovation Centres around Europe aim to help harness great ideas and turn them into successful...

Go is a game so complex that raw computing power was never going to be enough to turn it into a competitive...

The 20km of Brussels was held on the 30th May 2010, 10 Microsoft employees participated in the race but there...

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is taking part in a pioneering EU Framework Programme 7 project on...

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Microsoft joined forces in 2008 to create the BSC-Microsoft...

Sahara dust forecasting, cancer genome sequencing or the design of computer’s next generation of...

Small businesses in Denmark are increasingly interested in the more sophisticated features of enterprise-class...

It’s been all change in Brussels, and innovation now has a new Commissioner. And Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has...

A converted chapel in Barcelona is the home for a supercomputing centre that is helping to revolutionise the...

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American...

Huge industrial robots are now a mature industry. Young French entrepreneur Jean-Christophe Baillie believes...

Biologists have long had to fight against the idea that theirs is a ‘soft’ science. Now, armed with tools from...

The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES...

High numbers of deaths at sea is a major concern for anyone in the fishing industry, with an estimated 24,000...

Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it...

Aviva is a global life and general insurance services company built around the needs of its customers. It has...

The BBC’s Digital Giants series features a video from Steve Ballmer, where he discusses the next big things...

Developers are the lifeblood of Microsoft. I know, I know, it’s a well-worn Microsoft mantra but believe me,...

In the United Kingdom the Royal Mail Group has expanded their IT services agreement with CSC to include...

Innovation is now the catch phrase for the European Commission but an important one to try and resolve issues...

Our favorite Geek in Disguise, Steve Clayton from the UK, provides on his blog a short and useful summary of...

In Europe and elsewhere, computing is experiencing a powerful transformation. Driven by continuous innovations...

Andrew Herbert has always been fascinated by computing, completing his first degree in computational science...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, when he was...

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation gave a speech on “Technology...

Ray Ozzie introduced the term Software plus Services about 3 years ago and since then it’s where I have...

As part of its drive to foster innovation and the knowledge economy in Europe, the Commission has designated...

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and...

Peer Bork, who heads a team of bioinformatic researchers at the Heidelberg, Germany- based European Molecular...

On 16 June 2009, the King of Belgium, Albert II, visited one of Belgium’s innovation hotspots, the Digital...

When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting...

Fifty-five researchers met in Trento, Italy, in October to look for collaborative solutions to the limitations...

The President of Microsoft International, Jean Philippe Courtois, was recently interviewed in the back of a...

We launched our latest operating system – Windows 7 - on October 22nd. Appreciating the mistakes we made on...

What is Microsoft's vision for the future? Take a look.

Spotted this in a post by Murray Gordon: apparently, Windows 7 broke the Harry Potter pre-order record on...

Garbage Information Gathering eases up the clean-up in Roskilde Festival using mobile technology

European Microsoft Innovation Centre leads a EU Cofunded project that aims to tackle information overload....

Best of with Viviane Reding, Meglena Kuneva, Neil Holloway, John Vassallo, Alexandr Vondra, Jan Muelfheit

Small computing devices, such as enhanced cameras, are becoming smarter and more capable: not only do they...

Cost-effective face-recognition software has been the springboard for success for one company spun out from...

A joint venture between Microsoft Research and the British Library is looking to address the needs of...

Youssef Hamadi: applied mathematics researcher and top-flight scientist, directing research projects in...

Frances's premier institute for computer science is now developing joint laboratories with international...

Search is increasingly becoming the main way in which people interact with information online, no matter what...

“The phone has a unique role. While the PC is the most powerful device, the phone is the most popular device…...

In February 2008, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen,...

Microsoft's European Growth and Innovation Day brought together policymakers and software developers in...

How do you get a Silicon Valley - or three of them - in Europe? And what can policy makers do to help? These...

Even as part of the largest industry computer science research organisation, Microsoft Research does not have...

One of Europe's leading pioneers in the field of medical image analysis has been awarded the €250,000 Royal...

The European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC), in Aachen, Germany, opened five years ago. Since then, it has...

Computer technologies have suffused the world we live in. They have created change and continue to create...

We spoke with Richard Harper, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge about the HCI 2020 ‘Being...

Computing has come a long way since the invention of the diminutive mouse. Unlike the keyboard, which was an...

Visit Alton Towers, the United Kingdom's biggest theme park, and you are offered a wristband. Wear it, and as...

Microsoft, via its European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) in Aachen, Germany, is engaged in the ARTEMIS...

As computers become more prevalent in our offices and homes, not only as PCs but also in media and...

Handheld computers for issuing tickets, reading meters, recording environmental data or taking orders are...

FUTURES spoke with Jordi Ribas, head of the new Microsoft Search Technology Center.

Paris-based startup Miyowa enlisted the support of European Union Grants Advisor (EUGA) and successfully...

It’s a familiar story: invented in Europe, commercialised abroad.

Research and development in highly complex fields – such as embedded computer systems – relies heavily on...

Computing pervades everyday life: whether used in business or leisure, by individuals or communities, it...

In an era of continual Internet innovation, one of the biggest trends is the Internet’s rapid growth as a...

Just when you thought there was nothing new in pictures, along comes HD View and explodes all your...

The Photosynth experience justifies the use of the old truism: it has to be seen to be believed.

Earlier this year Microsoft Research Cambridge, in partnership with Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio team, Lionhead...

Programming an industrial robot is still an annoying task that requires too many details and expert knowledge....

One of the current projects of the Socio-Digital Systems Group atMicrosoft Research in Cambridge is ‘Family...

As more and more people share data and opinions over the Internet, geographic and location information is...

New geoweb applications such as Microsoft’s Virtual Earth are at the confluence of two massive innovation...

Football supporters and other visitors to this summer's Euro2008 football championships in Austria and...

Imagine a search engine capable of recognising the details of paintings rather than words. This is the...

“When I'm making plans for my spare time, the most convenient way to do it is to ask for the location and...

On 18 January 2008, Microsoft and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the creation of the BSC...

“Mathematics must make a great leap forward”: this is the challenge that Georges Gonthier has set himself.

 The rapid pace of industrialisation in India, China and elsewhere is pushing up the price of every...

The free lunch is over For the past 20 years the computer industry has grown on the back of ever-increasing...

In the global village, goes the standard economic theory, every region should have its own set of specialised...

“EUROPE has a team of star players, but it is not a star team.” That frank assessment of EUROPE's weaknesses...

Implementation of the Directive by member states is essential to the paradigm of ‘brain circulation' and the...

Merely a concept at the start of the century, Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) has already completed the first...

Driven by computer and network technologies, TV is undergoing a paradigm shift that is not only changing TV...

Year by year, the flood of content is rising all around us: television channels, books, music and the Internet...

Back in 2001, Matteo Berlucchi, an Italian entrepreneur and academic, was ploughing through his email inbox...

Today, the efficient and innovative distribution and processing of information is at the core of all business...

Global Research Library 2020 (GRL 2020) is an initiative of the University of Washington Libraries and...

The Tablet PC has broadened our concept of how we use a personal computer: a mobile computer with a screen...

The folks at RARE, one of the iconic pioneers in computer gaming, like to joke that the quiet surrounds of...

What if you could get assistance for your complicated business decisions by simply going through various...

The phenomenal growth of online advertising is driving demand for smarter tools to track results: enabling...

Thanks to a unique partnership between the public, private and academic sectors in Portugal and Brazil, the...