[err4nt]

Am I the only one who noticed they had articles published in August 2014 on that site?

Also, the first blog post I clicked on [1] brought this quote: "We propose a new progressive analytics system based on a progress model called Prism" WHY is Microsoft so terrible at picking names for their products?

1: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2001...

[ac]

> Am I the only one who noticed they had articles published in August 2014 on that site?

It's probably the papers that have just been accepted for publication, but haven't actually been published yet. The submission-reviewing-publication process is very slow and usually takes at least 5 months in CS conferences. So, many authors make the papers available right after they get an acceptance notification from the program committee. So, my best guess is that the publication date refers to the date those papers would be published officially.

[JL2010]

Those are typical names for academic papers, check out pretty much any conference's list of accepted papers for similar verbosity.

[Metrop0218]

It's an MSR publication, not a marketing team pitching a product. I don't think anyone thought hard about the name.