Microsoft Research Project Emporia Digg-like Windows Phone Personal News App
FUSE Labs, part of Microsoft Research, created Project Emporia as a kind of personal Digg-like news tool that lets you tune the news you see by voting items up or down.
View ArticleWindows Phone, Kinect Exemplify New Usage Scenarios and Device Capabilities...
The April 13 keynote for MIX11 put a devices spotlight on Windows Phone, the forthcoming Kinect for Windows Beta SDK, and the availability of Microsoft Silverlight 5 beta.
View ArticleControl the Cosmos with Your Fingers
What do you get when you cross a WorldWide Telescope with a Kinect motion-sensing game controller? You get the universe at your fingertips.
View ArticleWorldWide Telescope Lights Up with Kinect
The WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research has added Kinect control, with spectacular results.
View ArticleApril in Paris: European Software Focus
More than 200 leading lights of the European computer-science community will gather just outside Paris from April 13 to 15 for Microsoft Research’s inaugural Software Summit, designed to examine the...
View ArticleKinect for Windows SDK Means Business
The Kinect for Windows software-development kit will give developers tools to create applications that use motion sensing and hand gestures.
View ArticleKinect Audio: Preparedness Pays Off
With Microsoft announcing additional details about the impending release of a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software-development kit, Ivan Tashev of Microsoft Research explains how the stellar...
View ArticleFuture Business Apps Could Use Kinect UI
Natural user interfaces derived from Kinect will boost productivity, says Microsoft Research.
View ArticleSilo: Using Hashing and Delta Update to Improve Today’s Browsers
James Mickens of Microsoft Research has introduced Silo, a framework for using hashing and delta updates to reduce dramtically the number of round trips to the server needed when loadaing a website.
View ArticleProject Tuva: Enhanced Commentary
Project Tuva, which presents physicist Richard Feynman’s acclaimed 1964 Messenger Lectures with enhanced interactive features, now features in-depth commentary on each video, courtesy of Robert Jaffe,...
View ArticleEric Horvitz Named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft distinguished scientist and principal researcher for Microsoft Research, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. (Scroll down alphabetical list.)
View ArticleThe Sky Is No Limit: 13 Research Teams Compute in the Clouds
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the awardees who will be funded through the collaborative cloud-computing agreement that Microsoft and NSF announced in February 2010.
View ArticleVideo: Converting Regular Images into 3D
Eric Stollnitz of Microsoft Research shows technology that can transform a collection of photographs into a three-dimensional scene.
View ArticleDesigns with a Deeper Purpose
Software specialist Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research wants designers to think more carefully about which innovations to pursue.
View ArticleMicrosoft Explores Privacy-Protecting Personalization
A Microsoft researcher is experimenting with ways that a web browser could tighten the limits on information provided to websites.
View ArticleData Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters in the developing world.
View Article'Amazing Experiences': Kinect for Xbox 360 Moves to Windows with Upcoming SDK
Later this spring, Microsoft will release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software development kit from Microsoft Research to encourage the freedom to dream and create amazing experiences with...
View ArticleInside Microsoft India Research Lab
Many people think India as largely a centre for low skilled innovation but Microsoft Research India in Bangalore is working to change that perception.
View ArticleMicrosoft Researcher to Receive ACM SIGACT Knuth Prize
The ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory will present its 2011 Knuth Prize to Ravi Kannan of Microsoft Research India for developing influential algorithmic techniques aimed...
View ArticleVideo: FUSE Labs with Lili Cheng
Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs, takes viewers on a tour of her team's workspace in Redmond, Wash.
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