Microsoft Research News and Highlights

The latest release of the Kinect for Windows software-development kit includes Kinect Fusion technology from Microsoft Research.

Boris Motik of the University of Oxford has been named the recipient of the BCS Roger Needhamn Award.

Researchers at Microsoft Research Connections and the Royal Danish Academy are collaborating with a startup in northern Italy, to develop eco-friendly civil-engineering tools

Tony Hey, vice president of Microsoft Research Connectiolns, discusses his participation in the Global Grand Challenges Summit, held in London on March 12-13.

Microsoft Research had a robust presence in Austin, Texas, in early March as part of the South by Southwest Interactive conference.

Jennifer Tour Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research New York City, is featured in a series about women who have reached the top of prestigious, male-dominated professions.

Students from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University moved their rivalry off the field and into the classroom March 25 for the ACM Student Research Competition.

Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope offers a detailed, 3-D view of the universe that lets a user do a flyby of any planet, star, or galaxy known to man.

Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, has contributed an article to the Harvard Business Review entitled The Hidden Biases in Big Data.

Tech companies may be automating many of today's machine-learning processes, but sophisticated as these may be, the human component in teaching these computers remains vital.

The beginnings of capacitive, resisitive, and multitouch screens.

The 2013 Software Engineering Innovation Foundation awards feature some fascinating projects pertaining to advancing computer science.

Version 1.2 of the Blink lens app from Microsoft Research adds support for phones that have flash, and some easier edit options.

Steve Clayton of the Next at Microsoft blog has published a post about the latest issue of the Things We’ve Learnt About … series from Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Microsoft Research has contributed to a new finding that sheds light on the protective potential of a human gene to help point the way toward and HIV vaccine.

What do astronomy and business intelligence have in common? Look behind GeoFlow’s sophisticated, interactive 3-D data-visualization for Excel, and you’ll find its origins in the WorldWide Telescope project.

Taking a cue from virtualized data centers, Microsoft researchers envision a browser architecture that isolates Web apps from each other to strengthen security.

Microsoft researcher Sean McDirmid has been experimenting with the potential for replacing classical debugging tools with "live programming."

Microsoft Research has joined Drexel University's National Academy of Science Center for Visual and Decision Informatics.

Chuck Thacker and Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley were among the computing pioneers who recent spoke to students at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar about the foundations of computing as we know it.

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