Desperate Search at Sea for Microsoft Researcher
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A Turing award-winning scientist who leads Microsoft Research's eScience Group, and whose seemingly spontaneous innovations have touched nearly every aspect of technology, including financial databases, astronomy, and geography in a career that spans four decades, remains missing at sea since having signaled home from his sailboat last Sunday night.
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Despite a heroic search-and-rescue effort, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray's disappearance off the California coast continues to baffle authorities.
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MONTEREY, Calif. -- On a sunny mid-October afternoon, Stanford University graduate student Chris Perle was out at sea, searching for a four-inch metallic gray object, resembling a small microphone with an antenna, adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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Popular British scientific magazine New Scientist has given Microsoftâs new MSN search engine, still in very early beta, good grades.
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How the desperate might go about finding Mr. or Ms. Right.
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Blog: At a gathering of economists musing about the proposed DoubleClick deal, an outside attorney for the search giant attempts to take to task an economist hired by Redmond.
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The U.S. Coast Guard continued its search off the coast of San Francisco for boater Jim Gray, a Microsoft researcher missing since Sunday.
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In the past decade, searching the Web has grown from an academic experiment to a multibillion-dollar business. Microsoft (MSFT ) has not been a player, being content to outsource its MSN Search service to rival Yahoo!
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The mystery of what happened to Microsoft engineer Jim Gray deepened Tuesday, with leads of a possible sighting of his boat turning up nothing despite a massive search from Monterey Bay to Oregon.
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Out Googling Google on bespoke scale Comment Should Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! go through, the combined company would face one very major infrastructure question - how far is it willing to go in the war against Google?â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Microsoft researchers talk about a variety of location-based tools they are developing.
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The search giant has started a project to help scientists exchange data sets many terabytes in size.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC.
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For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money.
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A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results.
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Microsoft and Google look set to clash over their rival ways of searching desktop computers.
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Microsoft might be king of the software world, but it's having to play catch up in the increasingly important world of Internet and desktop search, chasing the substantial leads of Google, Yahoo and others.