Bing, Microsoft Research Brings the Power of Social, Search and Whimsy to...
Microsoft's Bing team has joined forces with Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs to build a special area of the research platform Socl for attendees of TEDActive.
View ArticleWing Surveys Her New Opportunity
Jeannette Wing, new head of Microsoft Research International, discusses her career, her reasons for joining Microsoft, and what she sees ahead.
View ArticleTechFest ’13: Technology Gets Smarter
TechFest 2013 demonstrates how Microsoft Research scientists are finding new approaches to help people sift through big data and designing novel, more natural ways to interact with computing devices.
View ArticleWill This Go Viral? Microsoft ‘Viral Search’ Uses Big Data for Social Insights
What makes a tweet go viral online? And what does a viral trend actually look like? Those are a couple of the questions that can be answered by a new Microsoft Research project, called Viral Search.
View ArticleSketchInsight Whiteboard Turns Data into Graphics for Presentations
At Microsoft Research's annual Techfest exhibition, Bongshin Lee has shown an intelligent whiteboard that makes presentations more useful by instantly turning data into graphics.
View ArticleTechFest gives glimpse of Microsoft’s future
The annual demonstration by company researchers gives a broad view of three of Microsoft’s future focuses: natural user interface, big data and machine learning.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Working on Making Excel Easier to Use
A new project from Microsoft Research is working to automate the labeling of Excel documents via machine learning.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Making Large Displays More Useful with Kinect and Adaptive...
Microsoft's latest vision of the future includes spaces where users interact with giant displays.
View ArticleHeads Turn as Microsoft Shows Off 3-D Scanning Techniques
During TechFest, Microsoft Research showed off various methods of producing a quick 3-D scan of a person or an object.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Shows Off Force Feedback 3-D Touchscreen
During TechFest 2013, Microsoft Research showed off a 3-D touchscreen with haptic feedback. Called 3-D Haptic Touch, it provides active resistance (haptic feedback) as you push 3-D objects around a...
View ArticleWith an iWatch Looming, Microsoft's Bill Buxton Details the 37-Year History...
Casio made a $100 watch with gesture control — in 1984.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research India Has Come of Age
Microsoft Research India has come a long way in its eight years of existence.
View ArticleSeeing Your World Through a Different Light
Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope will be on display from March 8 to 10 during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
View ArticleA ‘Golden Era’ of Insight: Big Data’s Bright Future
Eric Horvitz, managing co-director of Microsoft Research Redmond, discusses the computing advances on the horizon, the influence they will have, and how insights from big data and smarter software will...
View ArticleContent Contagion
A team at Microsoft Research New York City has devised a way to measure whether online content has gone viral and, if so, to quantify it.
View ArticleImproving Healthcare, One Search at a Time
By combing through 100 million search queries on Bing, Yahoo, and Google, Microsoft Research Redmond co-director Eric Horvitz and his colleagues were able to discover a previously unknown interaction...
View ArticleIn the Developing World, MOOCs Start to Get Real
Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.
View ArticleEasy Prototyping With Microsoft Gadgeteer
Build your own consumer electronics with this system from Microsoft.
View ArticleComputerworld Honors Microsoft Research for Breakthroughs in Pneumonia and HIV
Two collaborative projects from Microsoft Research Connections have been named to the 2013 list of Computerworld Honors Program Laureates.
View ArticleH(app)athon Project: Smiles Sure to Ensue
The H(app)athon Project, a big-data effort to use emerging technologies to help measure people’s happiness, is about to begin in earnest—with help from Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research Redmond.
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