Microsoft Donates Tools to Fight AIDS

Microsoft Research released this week their software source code and tools to help science progress toward an AIDS vaccine (MS press release).  "The source code for a set of software tools developed by Microsoft Research to advance AIDS vaccine research and development is available for download starting today from Microsoft’s CodePlex Web site. By sharing the code openly and at no charge with the worldwide AIDS research community, Microsoft hopes to spur other scientists and researchers to take up the tools and even build on them, thereby speeding the way toward a vaccine. "  Click here for an overview of the tools.  Kudos to Microsoft for donating millions of dollars worth of research materials in an effort to halt this human disaster.