Gaming Healthcare: How Microsoft Kinect Is Revolutionizing the Future of Rehab
Two ambitious new projects are using the Microsoft Kinect in creative ways to improve rehabilitation for recovering stroke victims.
View ArticleNCWIT and Microsoft Research Announce Winners of Technology Higher Education...
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Microsoft Research announce the winners of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund, which provides U.S. academic institutions with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Sends 3 to CHI Academy
Richard Harper, Ken Hinckley, and John Tang of Microsoft Research have been elected to the CHI Academy, which recognizes those leaders whose efforts have shaped the field of human-computer interaction.
View ArticleLampsonFest: Celebrating a Computing Legend
On Feb. 13 in Cambridge, Mass., colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate the many and momentous accomplishments made by computing pioneer Butler Lampson.
View ArticleBing Code Search Makes Developers More Productive
A unique collaboration among Microsoft Research, Visual Studio, Bing, MSDN, and external partners has resulted in Bing Code Search for Visual Studio 2013, which streamlines the coding experience for...
View ArticleGrants and Scholarships Promote Women’s Participation in Computing
Microsoft Research and the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) have announced the winners of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund.
View ArticleHow to Hide Your Genome
Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research says that a technique called homomorphic encryption can be a useful in helping to protect people's privacy.
View ArticleInternet Giving Guidance to Health Providers – in Unexpected Ways
The Internet is revealing information about human behavior that could be used to prevent disease and improve public health.
View ArticleWhat Your Teen Is Really Doing All Day on Twitter and Instagram
Danah boyd's new book, "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens," explores the nuanced reasons and ways teens use social networks--and why it freaks out adults.
View ArticleMIT Professor ‘Made Much of Our World Possible’
Computing luminaries celebrate the work of MIT adjunct professor and Turing Award winner Butler Lampson, one of the fathers of the modern PC.
View ArticleMaking Mobile Storage Energy Efficient
Flash storage takes power to write--a 20-volt jolt to each cell--but needs almost none to maintain. The real power hog is the inefficient storage software stack that eats 200 times the power required...
View ArticleAn Early Peek into the Oscars’ Envelopes
In 2013, David Rothschild of Microsoft Research correctly predicted the winners of 19 of the 24 categories in the Academy Awards. This year, he has sights set on an even better performance.
View ArticleLearn to Tell Stories with Data at the Excel for Research Webinar
Join a free, interactive webinar to learn how you can use Excel to accelerate your data discovery, at 8 a.m. PST on Feb. 26.
View ArticleVideo: How Many Teens Are Using WhatsApp?
Microsoft Research's danah boyd discusses teen' usage of social media.
View ArticleDataUp Rises to New Curatorial Heights
DataUp, an award-winning program for data curation, is now better than ever, thanks to a significant upgrade.
View ArticleChatting with the Author of ‘It’s Complicated’
While preparing for the publication date of her new book, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens,” ethnographer danah boyd of Microsoft Research took a few minutes to discuss what she...
View ArticleNetworked Teens Are Far from Doomed, New Book Says
Author Danah Boyd says today's teenagers are just using existing tech to do "what teens have always done."
View ArticleMassive Evolution to Take Place in the Way Mobiles Are Used: P Anandan,...
P Anandan of Microsoft Research India says there's no reason why you must hold a mobile phone to your ear or why it can't be used to help a poor person located remotely take medication in timely fashion.
View ArticleSelect Students’ Summer Plans: Big Apple, Big Data
Hoping to increase diversity within the computer-science community, researchers from New York City are organizing the Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School.
View ArticleChronoZoom and Zombies Head to SXSWedu
Curriculum designer David Hunter will present his Zombie-Based Learning Curriculum as part of a ChronoZoom presentation during the upcoming SXSWedu event.
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