Turning Ideas Into Reality.

Opened in July 2008, Microsoft Research New England continues to build on Microsoft’s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and to advance the state of the art in multiple areas of computing research. The lab, located at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, is pursuing new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable the computing and online experiences of the future.

News & Recent Publications

• Designing Structures Made of Nanomaterials - Microsoft researchers hope to simplify algorithms for self-assembling materials. By Katherine Bourzac, MIT Technology Review, June 9, 2009
• Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships By Stephen Baker, Business Week, May 21st 2009
• New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss By Rob Knies, May 14th, 2009
• boyd: Taking the Pulse of Social Networks By Rob Knies, March 5th, 2009
• Poly-logarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits (PDF); Mark Braverman; 2009.
• Linear Time Approximation Schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp Games and Related Minimization Problems; Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy, 2008.
• Trust-Based Recommendation Systems: an Axiomatic Approach (PDF); Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, Uriel Feige, Abraham Flaxman, Adam Tauman Kalai, Vahab Mirrokni, Moshe Tennenholtz; 2008.

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