Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Michael Freedman, managing director of Station Q, takes a look back at a productive year.

Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New York City, takes a look back at a productive year.

Roy Levin, managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, takes a look back at a productive year.

Surajit Chaudhuri, managing director of the eXtreme Computing Group, takes a look back at a productive year.

Eric Horvitz and Yi-Min Wang, managing co-directors of Microsoft Research Redmond, take a look back at a productive year.

GPS reduces battery life in a smartphone or tablet, a problem that has challenged a team led by principal researcher Jie Liu at Microsoft Research.

Microsoft Research Connections helped to support the Dec. 1 TEDxWomenSouthLakeUnion event in Seattle to encourage women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, or math.

Here are the top 10 Microsoft Research Connections blog posts of 2012.

Exploring Microsoft's research labs, with projects to improve gesture recognition and eliminate blue-screen errors.

A Microsoft Research project, called IllumiRoom, was unveiled during CES, using projectors to overlay images from the TV screen to all of the walls in the room.

As mathematical techniques improve, many day-to-day problems are being solved mathematically, thereby helping companies and governments take better decisions and forecast trends more accurately.

A team from Microsoft Research has published a paper analyzing the use of Twitter for reports about drug-cartel violence in Mexico.

To understand how people will collaborate in an era of varied ICTs, where countries like India have huge mobile phone penetration, Microsoft Research India will launch the Whodunit? Challenge on Feb. 1.

BBC News took a look around Microsoft's research center in Cambridge to see how the company is experimenting with its own invention, the Kinect.

The latest version of Try F#, a set of resources that makes it easy to learn and program with F# in a browser, was released on Jan. 22.

Microsoft Research will have a robust presence in Rome from Jan. 20-26 during the 40th annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.

Microsoft Research India announced the debut of Research Connector, a community research portal, during the annual TechVista symposium.

Microsoft Research is embarking on a highly ambitious project: a computational model of an entire ecosystem, from the soil itself to the creatures that live on it.

The future could see touch gestures move beyond use in games and casual consumption to more applicability in business-productivity tasks such as executing commands on data sets by finger-drawing symbols.

Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, an expert on distributed systems, provides his opinion on writing software code.

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