Your Phone or Mine? Fusing Body, Touch, and Device
Another novel use for the Kinect. Microsoft Research demonstrates that it can work out which of multiple users is interacting with a multi-user interactive touch display.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Seattle, Scientific Innovation, and Microsoft...
On June 2, during the Science EXPO Day of the Seattle Science Festival, Microsoft Research will demonstrate seven projects that point the way to the scientific advancements of the future.
View ArticleVideo: Virtual Worlds Collide at Seattle Center Expo
Andy Wilson and Jonathan Fay of Microsoft Research Redmond, demonstrate projects on display June 2 during the Science EXPO Day in Seattle.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: The Friendly Faces of Microsoft Research Asia
Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia have just released the Microsoft Research Face Software Development Kit, incorporating the latest in face technologies and enabling development of face-based...
View ArticleRethinking Privacy in an Era of Big Data
danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England discusses the tensions and anxieties created by considering privacy amid today's prevalence of big data.
View ArticleIn the Mood for Social Media
Feelings affect human behavior, direct our actions, and influence our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world around us. New research extracts emotional states from large-scale expressions of...
View ArticleSpotlight on Microsoft Research: Big Data and Open Science
Roland Saekow, a University of California, Berkeley project lead for ChronoZoom, on which Microsoft Research Connections is a partner, discusses the project's current status.
View ArticleSummit Illuminates Computer-Science Research in Latin America
Microsoft Research's 2012 Latin American Faculty Summit marked the eighth gathering of computer scientists in Latin America.
View ArticleTranslation Tools Could Save Less-Used Languages
Languages that aren't used online risk being left behind. New translation technology from Google and Microsoft could help them catch up.
View ArticleVideo: Microsoft Research in Fight Against HIV
David Heckerman, the researcher behind Microsoft’s spam-filtering system, discusses his efforts to combat HIV.
View ArticleOn the Road with ChronoZoom
Learn how community collaboration is developing a visualization tool that enables you to zoom through time.
View ArticleKinect Launches a Surgical Revolution
Microsoft Research Cambridge researcher Helena Mentis is part of a U.K. research team exploring a way for surgeons to manipulate medical images with a wave of a hand.
View ArticleEnergy-Capping System Holds Promise of Greener Data Centers
Microsoft researchers have unveiled a tool they believe could help minimize the amount of power used by data centers without negatively affecing business performance.
View ArticleHere, Scholars Are Summer-School Students
Microsoft Research India's annual summer school helps to build a critical mass of researchers to address critical subjects.
View ArticleNew Research Grants Aim at Combating Human Trafficking
Recipients of funds have been selected for projects that investigate the role of technology in the human trafficking of minors in the United States, an effort by the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Deep-Neural-Network Speech Recognition Debuts
New algorithms available through the Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing Service represent the first time a company has released a deep-neural-network-based speech-recognition algorithm commercially.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Tony Hoare on the Turing Centenary
Tony Hoare, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge and winner of the 1980 A.M. Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, shares his reflections on the centenary of the...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, the Ugly … and the Internet
The Internet is not much different than everyday life, says danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England.
View ArticleNew Forum Promotes Computer Science and Mathematics
Fabrizio Gagliardi of Microsoft Research Connections discusses the new Heildelberg Laureate Forum, designed to bring together recipients of the Turing Award, the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal for an...
View ArticleThe Cloud Rains More Services on Project Hawaii
Project Hawaii, which extends the Windows Phone with the power of the cloud, now offers even more cloud services.
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