Microsoft Research News and Highlights

For decades, there have been artist-in-residency programs within scientific and academic communities. An exhibit in Redmond, Wash., presents the results of Microsoft Research’s collaborations with its first artist-in-residence, James George.

Microsoft Research has released a free tool to help you avoid choosing bad passwords

Tools from Microsoft Research help students discover the magic of computing.

Frank Martinez of Microsoft Research is used to giving back to his community, so it’s not surprise that he is involved in the Hour of Code event being promoted during Computer Science Education Week.

Socl, the creative-expression engine from Microsoft Research, now has apps available for Windows Phone, Android, and iPhone.

Members of Advanced Technology Labs Cairo have delivered a much-improved Arabic-language experience for users of Office 2013.

A long-term collaboration between Microsoft Research and the Photosynth product team constructs smoothly realistic 3-D views rendered from still photographs.

Andrew Blake of Microsoft Research will outline significant achievements in the field of computer vision and will discuss the central role of probability during his Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, Jan. 15 in Baltimore.

On Feb. 1, Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research will start her term as president-elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Zhengyou Zhang of Microsoft Research has been named a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2013 class of Fellows.

Microsoft Researchers have created the Gigapixel ArtZoom project to present an interactive image of the city of Seattle that offers astounding detail—and several surprises.

When researchers such as Ranveer Chandra get creative with wireless protocols, it’s possible to reuse unoccupied spectrum, give Xbox games an edge, let mobile devices run longer, or provide Internet access to impoverished rural areas.

Microsoft Research's policy of freely sharing research submitted to conferences or publishers on an online site is evidence of continued momentum toward "open science."

Work on affective computing at Microsoft Research is exploring how wearable devices can help monitor stress in people's lives.

Much progress has been made on the Lab of Things, a flexible platform for experimental research from Microsoft Research.

Microsoft's real-time motion-sensing technology could make rehabilitation more successful and more fun.

The Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative effort between Microsoft Research and two leading Swiss universities, began Feb. 5.

Microsoft Research is soliciting proposals for its latest round of grants for the use of Windows Azure in scholarly research.

Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects at Swiss universities ETH Zurich and EPFL.

From the rooftop of a downtown Seattle condominium, researchers from Microsoft spent a clear October day using two-way radios and cameras with long lenses to create a large scale panorama for their Seattle Gigapixel ArtZoom Project.

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