Microsoft Taps Students For Social, Search Input
Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs, is challenging marketers and students to think differently about social computing and search.
View ArticleCambridge's Triple Honours in Engineering Elite
Andrew Blake, managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, was named to the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council by David Willetts, minister for Universities and...
View ArticleCutting a Graph by the Numbers
Nisheeth Vishnoi of Microsoft Research India delivered a wonderful talk at Georgia Tech recently on finding a balanced separator in an undirected graph.
View ArticleDeblurring Images for Continents
Bing Maps’ Global Ortho Program flies planes and photographers over vast territories. Thanks to research into image deblurring, motion-blurred photos can be corrected for quality without the expense of...
View ArticleFrom Smartphone to Smart Home: Automating the Modern Home
To simplify the management and development of smart-home applications, Microsoft Research has developed HomeOS, which, coupled with smartphones and cloud services, makes the "smart home" a reality.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Start Spreading the News … Announcing Microsoft...
On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Debuts N.Y.C. Lab
On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City.
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Lab Hunts for Value in User Data
The New York lab will search for patterns in aggregated user data and suggest new revenue sources for Microsoft's existing products.
View ArticleTip Tap Tones: Microsoft Research Releases a Mandarin Teaching Tool for...
Microsoft Research has released an interesting application designed to make it slightly easier to learn Mandarin.
View ArticleCHI 2012 Melds Physical and Virtual
Microsoft researchers participating in CHI 2012 show new ways for sound, light, motion, and ordinary consumer electronics to enhance human interaction with computers.
View ArticlePicking the Brains of Strangers Helps Make Sense of Online Information
People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie...
View ArticleGesture Control System Uses Sound Alone
SoundWave, a project from Microsoft Research, lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor.
View ArticleNew Apps for the Bottom Billion
Low-tech phone technology from Microsoft Research enables images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: A Hybrid Approach to Direct Search Answers
Researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond and MIT have devised a technique, being presented during the 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, to deliver quick answers to user...
View ArticleMicrosoft's MirageTable Allows AR Teleconferencing
A new system developed by Microsoft Research enables people in remote locations to share and interact with real and virtual objects.
View ArticleExploited Display Bug Lets LCDs Show Two Images Simultaneously
Microsoft researchers have turned a display annoyance into a way to show two different images simultaneously.
View ArticleCHI 2012: Microsoft Research Explores the Potential for Emotional Technology
It was another amazing year for the annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Here are some of the highlights.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Incremental, Iterative Computation for Big Data
The Naiad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley focuses on enabling incremental and iterative computation for big-data analysis.
View ArticleDino Distefano Presented with the BCS Needham Award
Dino Distefano, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, has been named as the winner of the BCS Roger Needham Award sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: More Research Contributions to Windows Phone...
A recent post discussed translation work from Microsoft Research that has been incorporated into Windows Phone. But wait, there’s more!
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