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Causal relationships are stable across distribution shifts.

Xim is a free app that gives you the ability to create a temporary, ad hoc network between multiple phones so you can share photos with others—whether remote or in the same room, without

Regenesis provides a fascinating overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce: from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected wooly mammoths.

Transform Data by Example is an example-driven search engine that can help you find functions for your data wrangling task. It is an Excel Add-In, powered by a backend service on Azure.

Among Microsoft Research's contributions to SIGGRAPH 2014, a combined hardware and software solution for markerless reconstruction of non-rigidly deforming physical objects with arbitrary shape in

A prototype of Project Silica's media library in action. Learn more about Project Silica: microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-silica

This is the first of two tutorial sessions about the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK).

Introducing TORC—TOuch Rigid Controller—a new rigid haptic controller prototype that renders virtual object characteristics and behaviors such as texture and compliance.

Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012 Seeing Displays: Uses flat lenses (wedge) to see through a semi-transparent OLED for novel above screen gesture and scanning interactions.

DNA is the building block of life, but DNA can also contain glitches that contribute to serious and unavoidable health issues that affect billions of people.

Unexpectedly, JavaScript has become one of the world's most popular programming language while still remaining one of the world's most misunderstood.

PowerPoint now includes AI technologies to help people create better presentations and become better presenters.

Microsoft Project Prague, a part of Cognitive Services, is a cutting edge, easy-to-use SDK that helps developers and UX designers incorporate custom gestures into their apps.

Deep Learning allows computational models composed of multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction.

Moving data across the wire is a fundamental task in application development. There are a myriad of options and no silver bullet� or is there?!

Recent advances in single-cell technologies enable deep insights into cellular development, gene regulation, and phenotypic diversity by measuring gene expression and epigenetic information for

Deep learning is transforming the field of artificial intelligence, yet it is lacking solid theoretical underpinnings.

Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of machine teaching: an effort to help people without a machine learning background teach their systems to get better based on experience.

Popular games for smartphones and tablets focus on touchscreen-based interaction.

Scene Channel, an experimental feature, describes the scene around you. Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you.

We are in an era of devices and services that is bringing the dream of Artificial Intelligence to life.

Array signal processing is a well-established area of research, spanning from phased array antennas in the middle of the last century to hands-free audio in recent years.

Microsoft Research is committed to investing in the future of computer science research through its Faculty Fellow program as illustrated through the story of Fei-Fei Li.

Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation, is available for novice to experienced programmers on

Code Canvas is an experimental research platform for building a spatial development environment.

Microsoft Research is only scratching the surface when it comes to developing new ways users can naturally interact with computers, or, with the aid of small natural user interface devices, interact

Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs.

Presenting a poster at an international conference is a terrific opportunity to promote your research and raise your professional profile in a global academic forum.

Steve Milroy of OnTerra provides examples of the Bing Maps API and SDK to develop applications for visualizing geo-science data on top of Bing Maps.

What was the chain of unexpected connections that led from the search for clean water to the manufacture of computer chips? And how did the overheating of printing presses in the U.S.