Solve the Big Data Problems of the Future: Join Microsoft Research’s Naiad...
Microsoft researchers discuss the latest on Naiad, an open-source, .NET-based platform for high-throughput, low-latency data analysis.
View ArticleHow Microsoft Created Its 'Star Trek' Voice Translator for Skype
Vikram Dendi of Microsoft Research discusses the work that underpins the newly announced Skype Translator real-time conversational-translation tool.
View ArticleAI Takes to the Skies
The Windflow project at Microsoft Research uses aircraft in flight as a vast sensor network to infer atmospheric conditions.
View ArticleBeyond Cortana: What Artificial Intelligence Means for the Future of Microsoft
Microsoft Research’s hyperscale computing artificial intelligences are about to change the way we think about computing.
View ArticleJaron Lanier Wins German Book Trade’s Peace Prize
Jaron Lanier, partner architect with Microsoft Research, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by that national’s publishers and booksellers association.
View ArticleMicrosoft Researcher Adds Industry Wisdom to Stanford HCI Course
John Tang of Microsoft Research recently participated in a Stanford University computer-science course called Interaction Design Studio.
View ArticleDigital Summit: Microsoft Aims for Smartphones That Run for a Week
Rethinking smartphone software and battery design could make it possible for your handset to last much longer between charges.
View ArticleKinect for Windows Helps Decode the Role of Hand Gestures During Conversations
Microsoft Research Asia worked with National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan to study the use of body gestures during conversations, work enhanced by the use of Kinect for Windows.
View ArticleNurturing the Future of Computer Science
Microsoft Research has selected seven of the world's most impressive young faculty members as recipients of its 2014 Faculty Fellowships.
View ArticleFrom Grassroots to Government
It happens rarely, but a grassroots movement has managed to win wholehearted government support. Led by Microsoft researcher Simon Peyton Jones, Computing at School is helping to reshape computing...
View ArticleWindows Bug-Testing Software Cracks Stem Cell Programs
Scientists from Microsoft Research and the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute are using bug-testing software to answer a big question in modern science.
View ArticleDecoding Satya Nadella's Microsoft
What does he mean by "ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence"?
View ArticleSoftware Promises Timely Diagnosis of Pneumonia in ICU Patients
Educators at the University of Washington are working with Microsoft Research to create a project to explore the use of natural language processing and machine learning to diagnose critical illnesses...
View ArticleAsian Students Shine During the International Women’s Hackathon
College campuses in Korea and Japan played host to enthusiastic, talented young women during Microsoft Research's 2014 International Women's Hackathon.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Connects with Software Engineers at ICSE
Microsoft Research played an important role in the 36th Inaternational Conference on Software Engineering.
View ArticleMicrosoft Catapults Geriatric Moore's Law from Certain Death
FPGAs ouble datacenter throughput despite puny power pump-up.
View ArticleMicrosoft Supercharges Bing Search with Programmable Chips
Project Catapult is a Microsoft research project that provides a new kind of computer processor for the servers that power Bing.
View ArticleStudying Human-Computer Interaction at Microsoft Research
Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research discusses her career, her work, and her employer.
View ArticleA Quick Trip to Beijing
Bill Gates discusses his recent visit to Beijing and spending time at Microsoft Research Asia.
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough
Physicists and computer scientists funded by Microsoft are pursuing what some believe will be the next great leap in computing: quantum computing.
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