Microsoft Makes Key Hire in Researcher Danah Boyd
Microsoft Research has hired social-network researcher danah boyd. Boyd, who spells her own name with lower-case letters, is probably the most high-profile academic in the world focused on the emerging Web and its social consequences.
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Research Interest Growing in India
Compared to a thousand doctorates in computer science that come out of American universities every year, India produces 50. But the situation in India is improving, says P. Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research India.
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Chinese Researcher Leaps into Prominence
Dongmei Zhang, who heads the User Interface Group at Microsoft Research Asia, credits her youthful athletic career for instilling the characteristics needed to achieve professional success.
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Google to buy Nielsen data
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AP - Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co.
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