Inside Microsoft Research: Students Get Creative with Touch Mouse
University students had a field day with the Touch Mouse during the Student Innovation Contest, part of the annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: The Research Behind Kinect
As Kinect for Xbox 360 marks its first anniversary of commercial availability, we take a moment to review a series of articles about the research that helped pave the way for the product’s success.
View ArticleChinese University Students Push the Boundaries of Kinect for Windows
Chinese university students participating in the Kinect Pioneer Program have created remarkable projects using the Kinect for Windows software-development kit.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research and the Kinect Effect
In conjunction with the first anniversary of Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft Research Connections continues to help spread the word about the Kinect for Windows software-development kit.
View ArticleSnapshots of the Future
Felix, a publication of Imperial College London, takes a look into the future of technology, including the work on biological computation by Andrew Phillips of Microsoft Research Cambridge.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Hinckley Paper Makes Lasting Impact
Ken Hinckley and co-authors from Microsoft Research Redmond have won the Lasting Impact Award from the 24th annual Symposium on User Interface and Technology, for the paper published at least 10 years...
View ArticleDigital Research Libraries Get a Boost with Latest Zentity Release
On October 25, Microsoft Research Connections released an update to Zentity, a repository platform designed to manage research objects—such as journal articles, reports, data sets, projects, and...
View ArticleWomen in Technology Hop to It in Portland
From Nov 9 to 12, technology-minded women from the across the United States will participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, an annual conference that brings the research and...
View ArticleBuilding a .NET Quality Control Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies
The Sequence Quality Control Studio is a Microsoft .NET software suite that performs quality-control evaluation and manipulation of sequencing DNA data for genomics research.
View ArticleExploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier of Microsoft Research has spent decades thinking about technology and the ways we use – and misuse – it. He also has been thinking long and hard about using avatars to access the untapped...
View ArticleNight at the Museum—sans Ben Stiller
Rob Fatland of Microsoft Research Connections discusses his recent trip to the California Academy of Sciences to demonstrate the WorldWide Telescope.
View ArticleA Beehive Built for Academia
Beehive, a powerful, cost-effective multicore computer designed by Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, is helping students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learn about computer architecture...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Code Space Project Combines Kinect, Touchscreens for Awesome...
Microsoft Research has a project that could redefine the way we approach meetings. Dubbed Code Space, the project enables groups to collaborate using air and touch gestures with Kinect sensors and...
View Article.NET Time Series Foundation on Sho
A set of .NET components for time series analysis, recently made available for public download from Microsoft Research, will be of interest to NET developers who are building business-analytics,...
View ArticleGoogle and Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence
Peter Norvig, Google's head of research, and Eric Horvitz, a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, are optimistic about the future of machine intelligence.
View ArticleGonthier Earns EADS Foundation Honor
In Paris on Nov. 22, Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research Cambridge was awarded the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science.
View ArticleUnlocking Academic Success with Frame Games for Learning
With financial support from Microsoft Research, a research group at the Rochester Institute of Technology has developed a game that helps students earn a digital reward for collegiate success.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Cambridge Researcher Collects French Acclaim
On Nov. 22, Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research Cambridge collected the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science, presented by the French Académie des sciences.
View ArticleHow to Say 'Fourth Paradigm' in Portuguese
The Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute has launched a Portuguese translation of "The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery."
View ArticleInterview with SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Speaker & Microsoft Researcher Bill Buxton
Bill Buxton, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research, will be making a presentation during SIGGRAPH Asia. He recently got a chance to discuss his work.
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