Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Andrew Blake, managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond, counts himself a vocal proponent of the value TechFest brings to his facility.

Antonio Criminisi of Microsoft Research Cambridge explains the capabilities of his TechFest 2011 project, InnerEye: Visual Recognition in the Hospital.

TechFest 2011 is history. For many affiliated with Microsoft Research, sleep beckons.

Microsoft Research software recognizes organs and other structures in medical images.

Bangalore's Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, of Microsoft Research India, is on MIT’s Technology Review list of young achievers. Her low-cost digital-slate solution impacts villagers across India in a big way.

The Microsoft Biology Initiative will hold a two-day workshop on the Microsoft Biology Foundation, an open source Microsoft .NET library and application programming interface for bioinformatics research, April 19 and 20.

Microsoft launches Kodu Game Lab software to help kids express creativity and learn skills needed for future jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Microsoft Research has released a paper the discusses the facts, science, and data that underlie the algorithms of Kinect.

At Microsoft, Bill Buxton is a researcher who also has been charged with spreading the "design matters" message to engineers.

With a few snapshots, this Microsoft Research project enables a user to build a detailed virtual replica.

Game-controller technology from Microsoft Research could be adapted to help surgeons interact with vital images during theater.

Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research discusses how integrated devices with things that "just work together," novel user experiences, and touch might all be in our lives to a much larger degree in the near future.

Andrew Blake, new managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, likes what he sees at his lab, most notably its “incredible wealth of talent.”

Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are being used so unlicensed devices can use it, something that may become necessary as demand for wireless applications grows.

Jaron Lanier of Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group discusses the excitement and the possibilities stemming from the Kinect motion sensor.

Akash Lal, 29, a research with the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore, India, has developed a software testing programme that is at least 30 times faster than the existing models.

Dr. Janet Barnes and Dr. Rod Chapman recognised for their leadership on the Tokeneer Project

As Indrani Medhi of Microsoft Research India says, computers must be adapted so that even those who cannot read can effectively use them.

A new Windows Phone app from Microsoft Research enables uysers to write simple software programs for the phone on the phone.

Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research have unearthed security flaws in third-party cashiers that could enable malicious shoppers to avoid payment for online purchases.

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