Microsoft Research India today launched ResearchAndYou.com, a computer science (CS) community portal at TechVista, its annual research symposium. The portal was unveiled by Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. Coinciding with the lab’s fifth anniversary celebrations, the launch of this portal will bridge the gap between the small number of CS researchers in the country and the large pool of potential research talent at the Bachelor’s degree level. ResearchAndYou.com has some of the country’s leading academics and researchers as mentors and aims to achieve the following:

• Provide a forum where students across India can access the country’s leading researchers to seek guidance and information to start a career in research
• Clarify and demystify what research actually means vis-à-vis product development
• Attract students to take up advanced studies in CS
• Help students choose a career in research.

ResearchAndYou.com will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers and faculty from fields of their interest to ask questions, explore research opportunities and understand the state-of-the-art. The portal will also serve as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines of computer science and related areas, with links and pointers to different kinds of information, including reference material, research papers, events and conferences, and research news.

TechVista 2010 was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The morning session of TechVista also saw a Distinguished Address by Turing Award recipient Professor Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, a panel discussion on The Future of Computing and Computer Science featuring four Turing Award recipients, and talks by Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft and Dr. P. Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India.

Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India.

Research, innovation and technological leadership are closely related and interdependent. While India has great talent, it is yet to realize its potential to be a world leader in research. We hope ResearchAndYou.com will be a great resource in helping aspiring researchers.

Dr. Richard F. Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft Corporation, Said

Access and exposure to world class research and researchers from an early stage in education is critical in motivating students to look at a research career, which in turn is critical to developing a rich research talent pool. ResearchAndYou.com seeks to address this issue.

World’s numbers 1 social networking website has announced fellowship program to support Ph.D student in the 2010-11 school years. Facebook  interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:

• Internet Economics: auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions.
• Cloud Computing: storage, databases, and optimization for computing in a massively distributed environment.
• Social Computing: models, algorithms and systems around social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environments.
• Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and evaluation methods to produce effective online and offline models of behavioral signals.
• Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data centers.
• Information Retrieval: search algorithms, information extraction, question answering, cross-lingual retrieval and multimedia retrieval

Eligibility Criteria

• Full-time Ph.D. students in topical areas represented by these fellowships who are currently involved in on-going research.
• Students must be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area.
• Students must be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
• Students must be nominated by a faculty member.

Application Checklist and Instructions

The application must include:

• 1-2 page research summary which clearly identifies the area of focus and applicability to Facebook. Please reference the topical areas above.
• Students CV (with email, phone and mailing address). Please include applicable coursework.
• Minimum of 2 letters of recommendation (one must be from the faculty sponsor).
• The name and CV of the faculty sponsor.

All of the above information must be submitted as a PDF to fellowships@facebook.com.

Award Details

• Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year.
• $30K stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year).
• $5K per year toward conference attendance and travel.
• $5K toward a personal computer.
• Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship.
• Recipients are responsible for the taxation on any funds.

Important Dates

• Friday February 15, 2010: Applications for fellowships must be submitted in full.
• Monday March 29, 2010: Award recipients will be notified by email of their acceptance.

Selection Criteria

• Eligibility of applicant.
• The quality of application.Applicability of the project or study to Facebook.
• Other criteria as decided by Facebook in its sole discretion.
• Facebook complies with all equal opportunity laws

Facebook Fellowship Program Website

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The Redmond company has introduced online career development course named CareerForward that is hosted by Microsoft. this initiative is taken by the  Microsoft’s U.S. Partners to increase the learning in the students so that they can have more career choices. So Microsoft is ready to host and now aim is to convince representatives. Microsoft has planned to  implement the program over 30 countries worldwide.

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Wolfram Research has developed Mathematica 7, its a new version that contains computational software for Mac OS X and other platforms. Mathematica is well known for science, engineering and technical computing from long time. Wolfram has developed more than 500 new functions in the new version named Mathematica 7.

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Intel® Software Network presents an exclusive opportunity for you to interact with Intel experts. Chat with Intel experts on topics that are of interest to you. Understand new technologies that will help speed your development cycle and reduce time to market. And all this from the comfort of your home or office!

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