Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs, is challenging marketers and students to think differently about social computing and search.

Andrew Blake, managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, was named to the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council by David Willetts, minister for Universities and Science.

Nisheeth Vishnoi of Microsoft Research India delivered a wonderful talk at Georgia Tech recently on finding a balanced separator in an undirected graph.

Bing Maps’ Global Ortho Program flies planes and photographers over vast territories. Thanks to research into image deblurring, motion-blurred photos can be corrected for quality without the expense of repeating a flyover.

To simplify the management and development of smart-home applications, Microsoft Research has developed HomeOS, which, coupled with smartphones and cloud services, makes the "smart home" a reality.

On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City.

The New York lab will search for patterns in aggregated user data and suggest new revenue sources for Microsoft's existing products.

Microsoft Research has released an interesting application designed to make it slightly easier to learn Mandarin.

Microsoft researchers participating in CHI 2012 show new ways for sound, light, motion, and ordinary consumer electronics to enhance human interaction with computers.

People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have demonstrated.

SoundWave, a project from Microsoft Research, lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor.

Low-tech phone technology from Microsoft Research enables images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest.

Researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond and MIT have devised a technique, being presented during the 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, to deliver quick answers to user questions about relatively obscure topics.

A new system developed by Microsoft Research enables people in remote locations to share and interact with real and virtual objects.

Microsoft researchers have turned a display annoyance into a way to show two different images simultaneously.

It was another amazing year for the annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Here are some of the highlights.

The Naiad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley focuses on enabling incremental and iterative computation for big-data analysis.

Dino Distefano, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, has been named as the winner of the BCS Roger Needham Award sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge.

A recent post discussed translation work from Microsoft Research that has been incorporated into Windows Phone. But wait, there’s more!

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