Summer Bridge Students Catch Computing Fever
A couple of interns this summer at Microsoft Research have helped foster interest in computer science among young women.
View ArticleResearch Bites: 'Inferring Gas Consumption and Pollution Emission of Vehicles...
Microsoft researcher Yu Zheng discusses his work to infer gas consumption and pollution emission of vehicle's travelling on a city's road network.
View ArticleCoding in the Classroom: Computational Thinking Will Allow Children to...
With coding now an integral part of the computing programs of study in the new national curriculum in England, Microsoft researcher Simon Peyton Jones hopes that more people will gain an understanding...
View ArticleHow Microsoft Thinks of Wearables and Smart Devices
Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton suggests ways to think about Microsoft will be addressing the world of ubiquitous devices under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella.
View ArticleA New Tool to Correct DNA Sequencing Errors Using Consensus and Context
Bioinformatics researchers benefit from new, high-performance C# application.
View ArticleBig Data Tamed with the Cloud
A team from a Swiss university, with help from Microsoft Research, is seeking ways to help consumers struggling to cope with the deluge of photos and videos they have amassed.
View ArticleSummer School in Russia Explores Research in the Cloud
Microsoft Research's annual summer school in Russia attracted a collection of talented attendees and provided an opportunity for them to learn about conducting research in the cloud.
View ArticleA Data-Driven Crystal Ball
A new interactive platform showcases a Microsoft researcher’s groundbreaking predictive methodology.
View ArticleMicrosoft Begins a Push Into the Polling World
Microsoft Research, having done polls through video games in 2012, plans to have its automated digital assistant survey people through their mobile phones.
View ArticleXbox Polling and the Future of Election Prediction
Microsoft researcher David Rothschild discusses how nonprobability polling is helping us to be able to predict the future.
View ArticleSupporting the Innovation Pipeline
Inkjet-based circuit-board technology from Microsoft Research has led to a couple of awards for Japanese recipients,
View ArticleInternships Pay Big Dividends
Four interns describe how their experience at Microsoft Research Asia has helped advance their career.
View Article35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry: Hanna Wallach
Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research has been named one of Glamour magazine's 35 Winen Yder 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry.
View ArticleLiterome: Extracting Knowledge from Biomedical Publications
The Literome Project from Microsoft Research is designed to help researchers find relevant knowledge for genomic interpretation.
View ArticleA Strong Sense for Natural Interactions
Microsoft researcher Hrvoje Benko discusses the contributions he and his colleagues have made to UIST 2014 and explains why he thinks augmented reality is like having superpowers.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research’s Blink Gets a Major Update with a 'Fresh New Look'
Blink, an app for Windows Phone by Microsoft Research, has been updated to version 2.5, which carries quite a few changes and improvements under the hood.
View ArticleMeet Xim: an App from Microsoft That Lets You Express Your Ideas, Not Just...
Xim, from Microsoft Research, is designed to enable the sharing of photos in a way that is as easy and convenient as possible.
View ArticleWhy It Matters That Microsoft Is Channeling the Star Trek Holodeck
The latest projects from Microsoft Research is about creating the next big platform for just about anything.
View ArticleHopping with Enthusiasm at the Grace Hopper Celebration
A.J. Brush of Microsoft Research explains why she finds the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing so inspiring.
View ArticleKeeping It Simple, with Xim
Xim is a mobile app from Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs that enables users to share their photos with friends without having to pass a phone around.
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