Conducts research addressing a number of key underlying technologies: 3D graphics and animation, computer vision, and statistical modeling.

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Ottawa, Canada; 10–16 June 2006.

10th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages. Trondheim, Norway; August 28-29, 2005.

Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner.

Microsoft Research - Domain-specific languages, automatic analysis of programs, software visualization.

Research into distributed systems, hardware, information retrieval and analysis, integrated systems, machine learning, networking, and security. Project information and publications.

Official details about the format, and links to technical information.

Technical specification detailing the language and syntax of the format. From the MSDN library.

Displays an image within the boundaries of the object and between the object background and content, with options to clip or resize the image. When loading a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image, transparency from zero to 100 percent is supported.

An online workshop regarding the VML specifications and standards. From the Microsoft MSDN Library.