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The Computer, Once a Tool for Scientists, Is Becoming a Collaborator It's not just a tool serving science anymore. It's becoming a part of the science. New Area in Microsoft Research: Looking for a RiSE in Developer Productivity A new research area within Microsoft Research Redmond aims to improve the process of software development by providing better foundations, languages, and tools for describing, analyzing, testing, and executing software. Microsoft Goes Far Afield to Study Emerging Markets A nine-person team at Microsoft Research India approaches the technology of emerging markets in unconventional ways. Most often, they rely on a mix of sociology and empirical testing to see whether quirky ideas can make technology useful to those who have heretofore lived without it. Dryad: Programming the Datacenter The Dryad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley makes it easier for programmers to make distributed applications analyze data concurrently over large-scale systems. Can Microsoft Innovate in a Web-Centric World? For all its dominance, the company needs to find a way to prove to the public that it is indeed a masterful game-changer, and part of that may come from shifting the way it invents itself. Microsoft Research could play a key role.