A Quilt, a Map, and a Few Good Apps
A bit of collaboration and several Microsoft technologies combined to produce an interactive display that enables people to view the entirety of the massive AIDS Quilt.
View ArticleA Map of Loss: The AIDS Quilt Goes Online
The AIDS quilt is so large that even the National Mall cannot hold it all at once. But the Internet can.
View ArticleA Time(line) for Reflection
Guest blogger Madison Allen tells how her work on the AIDS timeline in ChronoZoom has helped her understand the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
View ArticleDavid Breashears Brings the Himalayan Region to Life
During the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012, mountaineer David Brashears shed light on how far the Himalayan glaciers have retreated over the past century.
View ArticleExternal Ills Imperil Tropical Reserves
Factors just outside the borders of biodiversity reserves can have significant effects on such reserves, says a new study, and Lucas Joppa of Microsoft Research Cambridge says that the study has real...
View ArticleCambridge Becoming Social-Media Research Hub
Microsoft Research New England has hired some of social media's best-known scholars in an effort to study changing attitudes and behaviors in real time.
View ArticleYour Wallpaper Could Soon Be an HD Display
Microsoft researchers are working on a display technology that can scale to gigantic proportions with stunning clarity.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Ten Billion, Too Many
This summer, on a London stage, Stephen Emmott of Microsoft Research Cambridge is delivering a gripping appraisal of the ravages of overpopulation.
View ArticleAdvancing Creative Research and Talent Development in Korea
Microsoft Research Asia is joining Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy to support world-class researchers in that country.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Kodu Update Lets Kids Explore Mars
Kodu: Mars Edition, released just days before the rover Curiosity is to land on Mars, will enable youngsters to learn computational skills and science concepts while exploring the Red Planet.
View ArticleBangalore Microsoft Lab Draws Global Interns
Microsoft Research India offers its interns valuable experience and receives, in turn, fresh ideas and perspectives.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: KinÊtre: Animation + Whimsy
KinÊtre, new technology from Microsoft Research Cambridge that will appear during the current SIGGRAPH conference, uses the human body to animate household objects.
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: SIGIR Paper Aims to Understand Use of the Web for...
A study on the factors seen in health search over the long term, to be presented during SIGIR 2012 by scientists from Microsoft Research Redmond, examines how web search can lead to unwarranted...
View ArticleWhen, Not Whether, Is the Question for Mobile Authentication, Research Finds
The findings from a recent study carried out by Microsoft Research and the University of South Carolina suggest that we should be asking ourselves when to require authentication rather than whether to...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Research: Fighting Back Against Click-Spam
A paper from Microsoft Research India, accepted for SIGCOMM 2012, represents the first systematic examination of the problem of click-spam—and suggests techniques for advertisers and ad networks to cope.
View ArticleAlice and Bob in Cipherspace
A new form of encryption allows you to compute with data you cannot read.
View ArticleThe Big Apple's Big Data Advantage
A new research lab in the heart of New York City is tasked with parsing the next big thing in technology.
View ArticleBig Sky; Big Data: WorldWide Telescope in Focus at Astronomical Conference
The WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research is on prominent display in Beijing during the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.
View ArticleFive-Time Everest Ascender Makes Global Warming App
Mountaineer and documentary filmmaker David Breashears is working with Microsoft Research on an application that combines photos, scientific data, and climate change to examine climate change in the...
View ArticleTR35: Saikat Guha
Technology Review has named Saikat Guha of Microsoft Research India to its annual TR35 list of the world's leading innovators younger than 35.
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