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July 12-13, 2010: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Faculty Summit The 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was held July 12 and 13 in Redmond, Washington.  Among the many panels and discussions related to the state of computer science the NodeXL team had several representatives talking about the ways network science education can be expanded using an easy to use application for network analysis [...]

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Tags: Conference · Microsoft · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Network Analysis · Social network · Talks · Visualization

VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event

May 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video · Visualization

Farewell to Microsoft after ten great years

September 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After ten years at Microsoft Research I have decided it is time to move on.  My time at MSR has been a remarkable one.  I have had the opportunity to work with very smart and focused people intent on making technical strides on many defining aspects of computing.  It has been a pleasure to work [...]

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Tags: Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Media · Sociology · Visualization