What’s Next Health: Whom Do We Trust?
Danah boyd, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, explores the contradictions and conundrums of living in a networked society.
View ArticleMicrosoft’s GeoFlow Lets Spreadsheet Jockeys Tell Stories with Maps
Work on Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope has led to GeoFlow, a new geospatial visualization tool in Excel.
View ArticleFighting Nuclear Proliferation with Cryptography
Boaz Barak of Microsoft Research New England is working with Princeton University professors to find a verifiable way to make sure that nuclear-delivery systems being decommissioned actually contain...
View ArticleWhy Big Data Is Not Truth
The term big data connotes the certainty of truth, but there are hazards present, some human, some technological.
View ArticleThe Dollar Cost of Annoying Display Ads
A paper co-written by a pair of scientists from Microsoft Research New York City attempts to assign a value to the widely observed negative effect an annoying display ad can have on a website.
View ArticleGet Over IT! Social @Work Is Smart (and Inevitable)
Work is for work, not social media, right? Actually, says Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research New England, the premise that social media-usage inhibits productivity is a myth.
View ArticleMicrosoft and IBM Researchers Develop a Lie Detector for the Cloud
A way to check whether calculations have been tampered with could make cloud computing more reliable, and boost privacy.
View ArticlePew Report on Teens and Social Media Looks at Privacy, Race, 'Social Media...
danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England participates in a discussion about the findings of a Pew Research Center report about teens and social media.
View ArticleVideo: Kenji Takeda at the TERENA Networking Conference
Kenji Takeda of Microsoft Research Connections discusses big data and related topics during the TERENA Networking Conference, held June 3-6 in Maastricht, Netherlands.
View ArticleTranslations Made Easy on Windows
The Bing Translator app for Windows, a free app resulting from a collaboration between Bing and Microsoft Research, enables you to translate from anywhere in the new operating system into one of more...
View ArticleScience Fairgoers to See 3-D Humans Digitized in Real Time
Attendees of the Science EXPO Day at Seattle Center on June 8 will be enthralled by six Microsoft Research projects, including one called Digitizing 3-D Humans in Real Time.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Gives Promising Computer-Science Faculty a Boost
The 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships continue a tradition of supporting the brightest young academics in the field of computer science to pursue their visions and make an impact.
View ArticleDNN Research Improves Bing Voice Search
Research by Microsoft Research scientists on deep neural networks has paid astounding dividends for users of Bing Voice Search on Windows Phone.
View ArticleMicrosoft Revs Speedier, Smarter Speech Recognition for Phones
Using a novel method that mimics brain functions, Microsoft researchers say they've doubled the speed at which speech is recognized and results are returned. They've also improved accuracy by 15 percent.
View ArticleNew BLINK Apps Even More Creative
New BLINK apps are adding fun ways to create and share photo flipbooks and combinations of still photography and video for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices.
View ArticleSocl Offers New Ways to Be Creative
Socl, a global community for people who love to exercise their creativity and share it with others, unveils a set of “create experiences” to feed that passion.
View ArticleTennenholtz Receives Allen Newell Award
On June 15, Moshe Tennenholtz, principal researcher with Microsoft Research New England, received the Allen Newell Award, along with longtime collaborator Yoav Shoham of Stanford University.
View ArticleBig-Data Analytics, from Theory to Systems
The inaugural Big-Data Analytics workshop, hosted by Microsoft Research Cambridge on May 23-24, provided discussion about the best ways to cope with the unprecedented deluge of big data that has become...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Releases Top-Notch Network Speed Test App for Windows Phone 8
Microsoft Research has released a Network Speed Test app designed for Windows Phone 8 devices.
View ArticleA Computer-Vision View of the World
Jamie Shotton, whose work will be featured during CVPR 2013, discusses his latest project, lost robots, and other interests.
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