Today's innovators are hard at work trying to provide answers, and nowhere more so than at Microsoft Research, where thinking five or 10 years into the future is part of the job description.

今天的创新者都在试图寻找答案，而且没有地方比微软研究院更甚——在这里，设想未来5年或10年之后的事情就是工作描述的一部分。

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The crux of the research and development of semantic web services has been the modeling and description of the semantics of service aggregation processes.

语义Web服务的研究和开发的症结在于服务聚合流程的建模和描述。

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The result is a UML-based architectural description language with ready made tool support, so overcoming one of the main barriers to adopting many research-based ADLs (like xADL, Acme or Darwin).

其结果是有了一个基于UML的架构描述语言和现成的工具支持，因此能克服多数基于研究的ADL语言(如xadl, Acme或Darwin)引进(采用)时的主要障碍之一。

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According to DARPA's research description, the robot should be about the size of a softball but capable of squeezing through a one centimeter hole and reconfiguring itself within 15 seconds.

CNN: Robotics discovers its soft side

In another recent paper, Dr. Eastwood and two colleagues set out to write the ultimate scientific definition of boredom, culling through decades of research papers to assemble a description of the phenomenon.

WSJ: Interesting Fact: There's a Yawning Need for Boring Professors

In many ways this research is a confirmation of the description that John Dickie used some years ago in his excellent book, Cosa Nostra.

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