Share Your Photos, Not Your Phone
Xim, a new, cross-platform app from Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs, provides users with a better way to share and enjoy their favorite photos with groups of friends.
View ArticleThe Woman Who Put the Vim in Xim
Sarah Needham, a user-experience designer in Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs, has applied a fresh, thoughtful approach to making the user interface for the new photo-sharing app Xim as inspired as the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Invents a Stylus That Can Read Your Mind
How you hold things can reveal a lot about how you will use them. This stylus can detect it.
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Quantum Mechanics
Can an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics research open a new era of unimaginably powerful computers?
View Article2014 Microsoft Student Summer Camp in China Inspires Budding Talent
Students for more than 30 top universities in China and Taiwan gathered in Beijing this summer for the 14th annual Microsoft Student6 Summer camp to imagine solutions to current problems via the use of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research's Xim Photo Sharing App Now Available for iPhone
The Xim photo-sharing app from Microsoft Research is now available for the iPhone.
View ArticleCelebrating eScience and the contributions of Paul Watson
Paul Watson, director of the Digital Institute at Newcastle University, has been named the recipient of the eighth annual Jim Gray eScience Award.
View ArticleHarry Shum Open Letter to Academic Research Community
Harry Shum, Microsoft executive vice president of Technology & Research, pens an open letter to address issues raised by university professors after the closing of Microsoft Research's lab in...
View ArticleA New, Deep-Learning Take on Image Recognition
New image-recognition research from Microsoft Research Asia, to be featured Oct. 29 during that lab’s 16th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference, focuses on the use of deep learning for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Introduces Fitness Band, Personal Health Platform
Microsoft has joined the fitness wearables market with the Microsoft Band and a personal health and fitness cloud service platform called Microsoft Health.
View ArticleA Year of Research in the Cloud
Microsoft Azure for Research has granted awards to more than half of the submitted project proposals, facilitating research in a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, biology,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants to Use White Space Broadband to Connect Rural India to the...
Microsoft is poised to deploy white space broadband in rural parts of India. The technology uses the spectrum in between television channels to broadcast internet access signals as far as 10 kilometers...
View ArticleMachine Learning in the Cloud Made Easier for Researchers—Azure ML Grants...
The recently launched Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) service hosted in the cloud aims to make it easier for researchers to build and deploy models for use in limitless applications.
View ArticleThird International Women's Hackathon Continues into December
A unique crowdsourcing event designed to empower young women leaders in computer science, the hackathon provides a fun and safe environment in which participants explore computing as a means of solving...
View ArticleFitzgibbon Channels Led Zeppelin into Practical Engineering
Microsoft researcher Andrew Fitzgibbon, recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, never tires of seeing abstract thinking transform into tangible results.
View ArticleNew Community Challenge Seeks to Evaluate Methods of Computing on Encrypted...
Kristin Lauter, head of the cryptography research group at Microsoft Research, on "practical homomorphic encryption" (PHE), which allows only some operations to be performed on data based on carefully...
View ArticleSeattle Sounders Score with SQL Server and Fitness-Tracking Technology
“SQL Server is the place where all the data from different devices meshes together. It provides us a holistic view of the data and enables us to draw powerful insights from it,” says Ravi Ramineni, a...
View ArticleBing Predicts the NFL Playoffs
As we approach the last days of November, we prepare for the annual time-honored tradition of... NFL playoff projections.
View ArticleUSC Annenberg Awards Microsoft Innovator
Researcher Duncan Watts receives the Ev Rogers award for his work on Internet connectivity.
View ArticleWhy Your Hands Are the Windows to Your Mind
Nora Young interviews Microsoft researcher Ken Hinckley about his tablet and stylus work that won a best-paper award at UIST 2014.
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