Microsoft's Boffins Aim for the Personal Touch
With the LightSpace project, Microsoft researchers use ordinary furniture and sensor equipment to turn every surface in a room into a computer interface.
View ArticleConversation Translator Auto-Translates Instant Messages into 35 Languages
The Microsoft Lync 2010 Conversation Translator, developed by Microsoft Research and the Microsoft Lync team, translates instant messages in real time using the Bing Translator service.
View ArticleVirtualized Screen: A Third Element for Cloud-Mobile Convergence
Screen rendering can be moved from client devices to the cloud, say three researchers from Microsoft Research Asia.
View ArticleCambridge Trial Will Explore Better Use of Broadcast Spectrum
A new trial is being launched in Cambridge, England, to help tackle the growing global issue of spectrum allocation.
View ArticleLindau Nobel Meeting--If HIV Is Attacked, It Adapts
Jonathan Carlson of Microsoft Research Connections discusses his studies into how HIV adapts to its host.
View ArticleDevelop Awards 2011: The Finalists for Technical Innovation
Two projects from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Kinect skeletal tracking and The Path of Go, have been named as nominees for Technical Innovation in the ninth annual Develop Industry Excellence Awards.
View ArticleHuppert Congratulates Xbox Engineers on Top Award
Five Microsoft Research Cambridge engineers, who won the U.K.’s most valuable engineering prize for their work on the Xbox 360 Kinect computer-gaming machine, have been congratulated by the city’s MP,...
View ArticleMultiplayer Gaming for Smartphones
Switchboard, developed at Microsoft Research Redmond, shows how combining smartphones with the cloud could create a mobile-gaming paradise.
View ArticleCybercrime Surveys Aren't Telling Us What We Need to Know
Methods used for most cybercrime surveys are so poor that the data can't be trusted, say researchers including Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research.
View ArticleStrauss Chosen to Participate in Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group has been chosen to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Sept. 19-21 in...
View ArticleThe Promise of Games in Lifelong Learning
Microsoft Research Connections has launched Just Press Play, a program designed to support collaborations to build the foundations for a unified game layer for education.
View ArticleWhere Earth's 'Missing' Species Can Be Found
In the first undertaking of its kind, scientists have pinpointed the location of the majority of the world's "missing" plant species — research that has unveiled both good news and bad.
View ArticleQ&A with Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses her career and her research.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research New England Turns 3: Jennifer Chayes Reveals Its First...
Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England, discusses the projects her facility is pursuing as it celebrates its third anniversary.
View ArticleBarrelfish: Exploring a Multicore OS
Barrelfish, a research collaboration between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich, explores how to design an operating system for the coming era of multicore computing.
View ArticleDebugger Canvas Released on Devlabs
Microsoft has released Debugger Canvas on DevLabs, the result of a collaboration between Microsoft Research, Visual Studio, and Brown University. Debugger Canvas transforms how software developers use...
View ArticleMicrosoft Kinect SDK Offers Channel Opportunity
Microsoft Research's Kinect software developers kit offers a host of possibilities for integration with business applications and specific vertical industries.
View ArticleClive Thompson on The Breakthrough Myth
The assumption is that technological breakthroughs are inherently surprising, but, says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research, that's not necessarily true.
View ArticleA Touch Mouse’s Tale
The Microsoft Touch Mouse debuted during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show. A few members of the team behind the device discuss the trajectory from research to consumer product.
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