Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Learn how Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning and data visualization are transforming sustainable architectural design.

Bing Maps now supports traffic-aware routing worldwide, including Clearflow machine-learning technology from Microsoft Research that predicts traffic on roads that do not provide live traffic data.

When the Skype Translator Preview launches at the end of 2014, it's expected to provide an insight into how communication will be revolutionised.

A new technology called "Haven" could provide unprecedented protection for data stored in the cloud.

A new technology called Haven could provide unprecedented protection for data stored in the cloud.

George Takei chats with Peter Lee, the head of Microsoft Research, and checks out The Garage at Microsoft, the company's 24-hour idea factory.

Building on the Kinect Sign Language project, the Kinect Sign Language Working Group's vision is to advance research in sign-language recognition.

Using technology from Microsoft Research, Office Lens for Windows Phone now automatically recognizes business card contact details you can save to Outlook or your phone's contact list.

Meet the new Fellows of the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program, which recognizes exceptional Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering, information science, and applied mathematics.

New ideas on how to make it easier for researchers to think, develop, test, and publish their computational work wherever they are.

Register for the Skype Translator preview program, starting today with two spoken languages, Spanish and English, and 40+ instant messaging languages, for Windows 8.1 Skype users.

Eric Horvitz, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond, and his wife, Mary, are funding a 100-year study that will chart the progress of artificial intelligence and its effect on society.

Learn how researchers are studying the renowned Brazilian cloud forests with help from the Microsoft Azure for Research project.

Microsoft Research's new speech translation technology parses natural human languages in realtime, turning Skype calls and chats into multi-lingual conversations. The world just got smaller.

The top-ranked app Xim now supports photo sharing on the big screen via streaming media devices, including Chromecast, Apple TV, Xbox One and Amazon Fire TV.

Skype Translator is based on work that’s been going on quietly inside Microsoft’s research and development labs for more than a decade.

A new effort to predict floods, the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE), uses Microsoft Azure to perform statistical analysis and build prediction models that rely on the almost limitless scalability of the cloud.

Windows App Studio now has the ability to import apps and games programmed using TouchDevelop as a data source. TouchDevelop was developed by Microsoft Research to simplify the creation of cross-device mobile and Web apps.

Microsoft machine learning researcher Hanna Wallach's recent talk at the NIPS 2014 workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning, "Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences," is now available online.

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