Microsoft Research News and Highlights

The most efficient personal assistants anticipate your needs by learning about your habits, environment, and preferences. Microsoft Research thinks electronic personal assistants should do the same—naturally.

FetchClimate, a tool from Microsoft Research that makes locating environmental information easy, is now available for research or study--or to satisfy personal curiosity.

At Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Techfair, researchers showed how they’re taking the PC in a new direction, combining machine vision with a new independence so they may recognize and interpret what the PC sees and present that information in a useful context

Windows Phone 8.1 is available as a Developer Preview and the new and improved Word Flow keyboard with shape writing is stunning. Microsoft researchers took an amazing keyboard and made it even better

The Madingley Model from Microsoft Research is a mathematical model that could help predict the future of the living organisms on Earth.

Microsoft's smart virtual assistant for Windows Phone, Cortana, combines artificial intelligence with a clever sense of humor.

The Madingley Model, a project from Microsoft Research Cambridge, focuses on creating a simulation model of all life on Earth.

MyCloud, an e-learning platform from Microsoft Research, gives students and teachers an interactive space for collaboration, exploration, and enrichment.

Microsoft says the AI systems behind its new personal assistant will enable it to become much smarter as more people use it.

Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research discusses her work on practical homomorphic researrch and its application to genetics and genomics.

Microsoft Research is making a concerted effort to share high-quality research results, such as the WorldWide Telescope, with Asian educators.

Rosiane de Freitas is an avid skier--and, as Juliana Salles of Microsoft Research Connections reports, also an enthusiastic supporter of the International Women's Hackathon.

Microsoft keeps rolling out new features in Bing that it claims make it superior to, or at least more interesting, than Google’s search engine. They’re not the sexiest applications of artificial intelligence, but they are easy practical.

‘It’s Complicated,’ by Danah Boyd.

Microsoft Research's Type-Hover-Swipe project features a motion-sensing mechanical keyboard.

Microsoft researchers bring a wealth of inspiration to the CHI conference on human-computer interaction.

A repoorter surveys a sampling of the projects on display during Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley TechFair.

The ink costs $500 a bottle, but only a few cents are needed to make a circuit.

The reproducibility of research was the focus of the Collaboration Workshop run by the Software Sustainability Institute, held in March in Oxford, U.K.

As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack.

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