Microsoft Research News and Highlights

With the LightSpace project, Microsoft researchers use ordinary furniture and sensor equipment to turn every surface in a room into a computer interface.

The Microsoft Lync 2010 Conversation Translator, developed by Microsoft Research and the Microsoft Lync team, translates instant messages in real time using the Bing Translator service.

Screen rendering can be moved from client devices to the cloud, say three researchers from Microsoft Research Asia.

A new trial is being launched in Cambridge, England, to help tackle the growing global issue of spectrum allocation.

Jonathan Carlson of Microsoft Research Connections discusses his studies into how HIV adapts to its host.

Two projects from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Kinect skeletal tracking and The Path of Go, have been named as nominees for Technical Innovation in the ninth annual Develop Industry Excellence Awards.

Five Microsoft Research Cambridge engineers, who won the U.K.’s most valuable engineering prize for their work on the Xbox 360 Kinect computer-gaming machine, have been congratulated by the city’s MP, Julian Huppert.

Switchboard, developed at Microsoft Research Redmond, shows how combining smartphones with the cloud could create a mobile-gaming paradise.

Methods used for most cybercrime surveys are so poor that the data can't be trusted, say researchers including Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research.

Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group has been chosen to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Sept. 19-21 in Mountain View, Calif.

Microsoft Research Connections has launched Just Press Play, a program designed to support collaborations to build the foundations for a unified game layer for education.

Microsoft believes computer needs to understand humans.

In the first undertaking of its kind, scientists have pinpointed the location of the majority of the world's "missing" plant species — research that has unveiled both good news and bad.

Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses her career and her research.

Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses the projects her facility is pursuing as it celebrates its third anniversary.

Barrelfish, a research collaboration between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich, explores how to design an operating system for the coming era of multicore computing.

Microsoft has released Debugger Canvas on DevLabs, the result of a collaboration between Microsoft Research, Visual Studio, and Brown University. Debugger Canvas transforms how software developers use and experience their programming environments.

Microsoft Research's Kinect software developers kit offers a host of possibilities for integration with business applications and specific vertical industries.

The assumption is that technological breakthroughs are inherently surprising, but, says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research, that's not necessarily true.

The Microsoft Touch Mouse debuted during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show. A few members of the team behind the device discuss the trajectory from research to consumer product.

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