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What's My Firewall Telling Me? (Part 4)

What's My Firewall Telling Me? (Part 4), (Wed, Mar 10th)
Theres been a lot of discussion about the recent stories on parsing firewall logs - Mar ...(more)...

Microsoft Security Advisory 981374 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability for IE6 and IE7, (Wed, Mar 10th)
Several readers have pointed us towards this advisory. This Microsoft advisory outlines a vuln ...(more)...

March 2010 - Microsoft Patch Tuesday Diary, (Tue, Mar 9th)
Overview of theMarch 2010 MicrosoftPatchesand their status. ...(more)...

Samurai WTF 0.8, (Mon, Mar 8th)
A new version of the Samurai WTF (Web Testing Framework) distribution, version 0.8, has been r ...(more)...

Vodafone Android Phone: Complete with Mariposa Malware, (Tue, Mar 9th)
Panda Security has a post up on one of their employees buying a brand new Android phone from Vodafon ...(more)...

Energizer Malware, (Tue, Mar 9th)
We received several emails today about the US-CERTanalysis of Trojan horse software found in a ...(more)...

SEO poisoning on TV show, (Mon, Mar 8th)
An ISCreader, thanks Paul, notified us about a new SEO(Search Engine Optimization) ...(more)...

Microsoft announced two important bulletins (fixing multiple vulns. affecting Windows and Office) for tomorrow: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-mar.mspx, (Mon, Mar 8th)
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Microsoft Research News
 

Gates: PC Pioneer Chuck Thacker Wins Turing Award
Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, explains the significance of Chuck Thacker's work and why he is a deserved winner of the 2009 A.M. Turing Award.

ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of First Modern Personal Computer
ChuckThacker of Microsoft Research,is a founding member of three major research labs and is linked to the Tablet PC and other major innovations in computing.

Chuck Thacker Attains Computing’s Peak
Chuck Thacker, a pioneer in computer science and a technical fellow with Microsoft Research, has been named winner of the 2009 A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computing.

Rewriting Human-Computer Interaction Handbook
Indrani Medhi of Microsoft Research India designs text-free user interface for illiterate populations.

TechFest Live!: Thanks for Attending TechFest!
Friendly faces bid adieu March 4 as TechFest 2010 winds to a close.

TechFest Live!: TechFest Theater 2010, Part 2
More videos of demos from TechFest 2010.

TechFest Live!: An Engaging Discussion
Here's what happens when you engage in a conversation with a TechFest researcher about a demo.

TechFest Live!: A New Way to Interact with the Cloud
Cloud computing encompasses a mind-boggling array of technologies, from databases to greener data centers. Demos on display during TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research’s annual tech showcase, focus on work shaping the future of computing.

A New Way to Interact with the Cloud
Cloud computing encompasses a mind-boggling array of technologies, from databases to greener data centers. Demos on display during TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research’s annual tech showcase, focus on work shaping the future of computing.

TechFest Live!: Millinery
Microsoft Research New England personnel don distinctive attire to celebrate TechFest 2010.

TechFest Live!: A View from New England
Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses the value TechFest delivers to her lab, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft as a whole.

TechFest Live!: Surface Computing on the Go
The Mobile Surface project from Microsoft Research Asia brings surface computing to mobile users and enables 3-D interaction with any surface.

TechFest Live!: Computers Working on Your Behalf
During TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research’s annual technology extravaganza, attendees will sample a time in the not-so-distant future when computers will enable conversations across language borders and will find automatically the photos you would like.

Computers Working on Your Behalf
During TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research’s annual technology extravaganza, attendees will sample a time in the not-so-distant future when computers will enable conversations across language borders and will find automatically the photos you would like.

TechFest Live!: TechFest Theater 2010
Over at our TechFest 2010 event page, you can find several cool videos, with more on their way over the next couple of days.

TechFest Live!: Arming Scientists with Powerful Tools
The folks on Microsoft Research’s External Research eScience team are exploring ways to make Windows Azure, a platform that offers developers a flexible, familiar environment to create cloud applications and services. Yogesh Simmhan explains.

TechFest Live!: New, Natural User Interfaces
Read about Natural User Interfaces with Physiological Sensing, featured during the TechFest 2010 keynote address—and about a cool digital-painting effort, Project Gustav.

TechFest Live!: The Value of Research
Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research,opened TechFest 2010 by speaking for a few minutes about his organization, why it persists in pursuing basic research, and where such explorations could lead.

TechFest Live!: Welcome to TechFest!
Visitors to TechFest, Microsoft Research’s annual technology showcase, are greeted by a collection of friendly faces.

Microsoft's Translating Phone
What if your computer could transcribe and translate, in near real-time, a phone conversation you're having with someone speaking a language you don't understand? That's the promise of one prototype shown by Microsoft Research during TechFest 2010.
 
 
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