Microsoft Research News and Highlights

MACE, a tool from Microsoft Research India, gives network administrators the ability to collect data from file servers, visualize that information, and gain greater understanding of who has what access to company resources.

On April 23, keynotes and interviews will be streamed live from the Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit, behind held in Paris.

A new tool called LiveANDES collects, stores, and analyzes data about Latin America’s wildlife—and offers hope for the future of threatened species.

Christopher Bishop, distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discusses machine learning shortly before the opening of the Machine Learning Summit 2013, to be held April 22-24 just outside of Paris.

The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit 2013 opened with a pair of engrossing talks by Rick Rashid, Microsoft chief research officer, and Andrew Blake, laboratory director of Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Infer.NET, a project from Microsoft Research Cambridge, delivers machine-learning algorithms to solve individualized problems.

Hermann Hauser enlivened the second morning of Microsoft Research’s Machine Learning Summit 2013 with a riveting keynote, looking back and then peering into the future.

Iain Buchan, a professor at the University of Manchester, offers suggestions on how machine learning could have a powerful influence on improving people’s healthcare.

A chat with Rick Rashid, chief research officer at Microsoft.

The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit brought more than 230 thought leaders to Paris from April 22 to 24 to discuss key challenges and new approaches to machine learning.

danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England delivered an engaging keynote address about teenagers and online privacy during the Tech Forum 2013 conference in Boston.

Code Digger, an extension for Visual Studio 2012 based on the Pex tool from Microsoft Research, has been released to enable software developers to analyze excecution paths through .NET code.

CHI 2013 is all about pushing the boundaries of human-computer interaction (HCI). During this year’s event, 27 papers from Microsoft Research present innovations that re-imagine the computing experience from multiple HCI disciplines.

United Slates is a digital-age active-reading system that combines the best features of paper and electronic text, developed in part by Microsoft Research's Nicholas Chen.

Research from Microsoft Research India, accepted as a paper to be delivered during this week’s CHI 2013 conference, has identified ways to make it easier for people with little or no education to navigate through computer user interfaces.

Economists who correctly predicted President Obama's re-election nine months before the election attribute their forecasting success to "small data."

'If you're aware there's a computer there, we've failed,' says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research.

An Interactive Belt-worn Badge with a Retractable String-based Input Mechanism, a note from Microsoft Research Cambridge accepted for CHI 2013, describes a computing prototype device designed to provide quick, easy access to useful information.

Wearable computer prototype uses context to determine information displayed.

Microsoft researchers are investigating whether Twitter could help spot signs of postpartum depression in new mothers based on changes in how and what they tweet.

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