Gold sponsor:
Windows Azure for Research and Microsoft Research
The Windows Azure for Research program provides academic, government, and industry researchers with access to a variety of tools and resources to help them maximize cloud computing for their research. This includes Windows Azure Awards, free training, online reports and webinars. We are supporting several reproducible research projects around the world in science, technology and humanities.
Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. More than 1,100 brilliant scientists and engineers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and openly collaborate with leading academic, government, and industry researchers to advance the state of the art of computing, help fuel the long-term growth of Microsoft and its products, and solve some of the world’s toughest problems through technological innovation.
Silver sponsor:
GitHub - the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over five million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.