At the annual Microsoft TechFest event—which began today at the company's headquarters in Redmond—Microsoft's senior vice president of research, Rich Rashid, announced that the source code of the ...

Five years after it began work on Singularity, an operating system research project focused on constructing dependable systems, Microsoft has released a research development kit (RDK) to the academic ...

AI may not seem all that smart right now - just look at Microsoft's Twitter bot that went all racist to those robots that collapsed when trying to open doors - but one day, sci-fi novels assure us, ...

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Microsoft's researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company's Singularity project. This new operating system, known as Helios, is a ...

Singularity is an experimental microkernel and operating system project started in 2003 for which Microsoft posted the source code back in March. Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of ...

For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. While there are certainly many ...