Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Microsoft's Bing team has joined forces with Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs to build a special area of the research platform Socl for attendees of TEDActive.

Jeannette Wing, new head of Microsoft Research International, discusses her career, her reasons for joining Microsoft, and what she sees ahead.

TechFest 2013 demonstrates how Microsoft Research scientists are finding new approaches to help people sift through big data and designing novel, more natural ways to interact with computing devices.

What makes a tweet go viral online? And what does a viral trend actually look like? Those are a couple of the questions that can be answered by a new Microsoft Research project, called Viral Search.

At Microsoft Research's annual Techfest exhibition, Bongshin Lee has shown an intelligent whiteboard that makes presentations more useful by instantly turning data into graphics.

The annual demonstration by company researchers gives a broad view of three of Microsoft’s future focuses: natural user interface, big data and machine learning.

A new project from Microsoft Research is working to automate the labeling of Excel documents via machine learning.

Microsoft's latest vision of the future includes spaces where users interact with giant displays.

During TechFest, Microsoft Research showed off various methods of producing a quick 3-D scan of a person or an object.

During TechFest 2013, Microsoft Research showed off a 3-D touchscreen with haptic feedback. Called 3-D Haptic Touch, it provides active resistance (haptic feedback) as you push 3-D objects around a virtual workspace.

Casio made a $100 watch with gesture control — in 1984.

Microsoft Research India has come a long way in its eight years of existence.

Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope will be on display from March 8 to 10 during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

Eric Horvitz, managing co-director of Microsoft Research Redmond, discusses the computing advances on the horizon, the influence they will have, and how insights from big data and smarter software will change the world.

A team at Microsoft Research New York City has devised a way to measure whether online content has gone viral and, if so, to quantify it.

By combing through 100 million search queries on Bing, Yahoo, and Google, Microsoft Research Redmond co-director Eric Horvitz and his colleagues were able to discover a previously unknown interaction between two commonly prescribed drugs.

Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.

Build your own consumer electronics with this system from Microsoft.

Two collaborative projects from Microsoft Research Connections have been named to the 2013 list of Computerworld Honors Program Laureates.

The H(app)athon Project, a big-data effort to use emerging technologies to help measure people’s happiness, is about to begin in earnest—with help from Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research Redmond.

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