Scott Prevost is General Manager and Director of Product for Powerset, the company whose semantic search engine was recently acquired by Microsoft. In this interview he describes the history of…

Kristin Tolle is the Senior Research Program Manager for Biomedical Computing for External Research in Microsoft Research. Projects run the gamut, she says, from "bench to bedside". In…

Roger Barga, a principal architect with Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative, is leading the development of Trident, a "workflow workbench" for science. In its first incarnation, the…

Before joining Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, Lewis Shepherd spent four years at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he helped usher in a new era of…

Ted Semon, a retired software engineer, chronicles the efforts to develop a space elevator on the Space Elevator Blog, and volunteers for The Spaceward Foundation which administers competitions…

Tony Hey, VP for the External Research Division within Microsoft Research, leads the company's efforts to build external partnerships in key areas of scientific research, education, and computing.…

Jonathan Fay is principal developer of the WorldWide Telescope. In this interview he explains how the project has yielded not only a breakthrough software product, but also a reference model for the…

The WorldWide Telescope was first shown to the public at TED 2008, in a joint presentation by project leader Curtis Wong, manager of Next Media Research for Microsoft, and Roy Gould, a science…

My guest for this week's Perspectives show is George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia and one of six researchers recently funded by Microsoft Research through its…

My guests for this week's Perspectives show are Barbara Willett and Nigel Snoad. Barbara works for Mercy Corps in Afghanistan, as the design, monitoring, and evaluation manager for a number of…

Caroline Arms is an information technologist who came to the Library of Congress to work on the American Memory project. The challenge of preserving digital content captured her interest, and her…

WinFS was an ambitious effort to embed an integrated storage engine into the Windows operating system, and use it to create a shared data ecosystem. Although WinFS never shipped as a part of…

With the new OpenSearch-based federation capability in Search Server 2008, you can integrate any external search service that can expose results as an RSS feed. In this podcast Jon Udell discusses…

Introducing Live Mesh In this audio version of a Channel 9 video, Ray Ozzie discusses his role as Microsoft's chief software architect, and the role of Live Mesh as one aspect of an emerging…

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft. He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the transition…

In this podcast, MSR researcher Catharine van Ingen and Berkeley micrometeorologist Dennis Baldocchi talk with Jon Udell about their collaboration on www.fluxdata.org, a SharePoint portal to a…

Kyril Faenov is the General Manager of the Windows HPC product unit. Before founding the HPC team in 2004, Kyril worked on a broad set of projects across Microsoft, including running the…

In this podcast, Jon Udell chats with Vittorio Bertocci, author of Understanding Windows CardSpace. The discussion traces the evolution of the identity metasystem, explores the rationale for…

In this podcast, Jon Udell invites Tandy Trower and Henrik Nielsen to explain why robotics is taking off, and how their new approach to the technology will generalize to a broad range of…

I'm deeply fascinated by software instrumentation in all its varieties. When Scott Dart told me that he had hard data on how many people are using the tagging features in Photo Gallery, I wanted…

My guest for today's episode is Mary Czerwinski, a research area manager at Microsoft Research. Our conversation begins with a reference to the search strategy I used to recall Mary's name, which…