Indian Researcher Helps Prove Math Conjecture from the 1950s
Nikhil Srivastava of Microsoft Research India is among the researchers who recently provided the first proof of the Kadison-Singer conjecture, first offered in 1959.
View ArticleJoint Research Center Reaches New Heights for Environmental Sciences
The Microsoft Research-FAPESP Institute for IT Research has announced two winning proposals in its recent search for research to address environmental concerns.
View ArticleVideo: Bill Gates on the Future of Technology
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke about the future of technology on Jun 15 during Microsoft Research's annual Faculty Summit.
View ArticleMicrosoft DemoFest Puts Research into Motion
DemoFest, part of Microsoft Research's annual Faculty Summit, offers university designers a chance to give hands-on demonstrations of their work.
View ArticleThe End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Doug Burger of Microsoft Research's Extreme Computing Group envisions a future in which digital accuracy is not required.
View ArticleDo You Know Where You'll Be 285 Days from Now at 2 p.m.? These Data-Masters Do
Microsoft researchers have developed a mobility prediction system that knows where you will be, even years down the road. What does this mean for the future of business?
View ArticleMicrosoft Has an Operating System for Your House
Microsoft aims to simplify home automation with software that connects different Internet-enabled devices.
View ArticleA Race to Save Caves Full of Treasures
During a conference at Microsoft's main campus on July 17, Wang Xudong, executive director of Dunhuang Academy, talked about how digitalization helped preserve Dunhuang's heritage and allows future...
View ArticleCollect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Gordon Bell, researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, has scanned more than a million document pages and 125,000 photos as part of his MyLiveBits research project.
View ArticleSummit Explores the Promise of Computing
Academics and researchers converged in Redmond, Wash., July 15-16 to explore the power of computing to solve real-world problems during the 14th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame
Duncan Watts of Microsoft Research New York City suggests that J.K. Rowling's spectacular writing career might be simply a fluke of history.
View ArticleProviding Short Videos with Dynamic Looping—Automatically
Researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond, collaborating with a colleague from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, now can capture a spectrum of looping videos from within a video scene...
View ArticleScanning Inside the Box at SIGGRAPH
Andy Wilson’s peers know him for augmented-reality and natural-user-interface innovations that never fail to amaze. His latest collaboration, which involves terahertz scans and 3-D printing, sounds...
View ArticleDigital Hair Manipulation Gets Dynamic
A SIGGRAPH 2013 paper from Zhejiang University and Microsoft Research Asia details a new way to manipulate images or videos interactively to deliver physically plausible hair generation.
View ArticleWindows 8 Travel App Gets a Boost from Leibniz
A close partnership between the Bing Application Experience group and Microsoft Research has enriched the Windows 8 Travel app.
View ArticleInspiring Girls About Computing
Microsoft Research Connections provided robust support to the Girls Gather for Computer Science camp, which exposes seventh- and eighth-grade girls to the wonders of computing.
View ArticleGeek of the Week: Microsoft Researcher David Heckerman Is Tackling Some of...
David Heckerman of Microsoft Research has applied his background as an M.D. and his work in computer science to make advances in some surprising areas.
View ArticlePh.D. Students Convene in Cambridge for 2013 Summer School
Sixty students from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa participated in the 2013 Ph.D. Summer School, held at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
View ArticleResearcher Varghese Captures IEEE Kobayashi Award
George Varghese of Microsoft Research Research recently was awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.
View ArticleMath, Engineering … and a Touch of Humor
Mark Manasse of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley has published a book that uses a dollop of humor to help communicate his research-grounded observations.
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