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Read more at Next at Microsoft: aka.ms/999990 Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game

Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of "bubbles" with the overview provided by multiperspective strip

How do we make decisions -- good and bad -- and why are some people so much better at it than others?

Watch a live demonstration of speech to speech translation using Skype Translator at WPC 2014.

Seen at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2012, IllumiShare enables remote people to share any physical or digital object on any surface.

So what is "the element" and how can you find yours? To truly be in your element, both passion and skill need to come together.

Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.

Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for any researcher, but they arenΓÇÖt easy.

This video shows handheld projector systems have the potential to enable users to dynamically augment environments with digital graphics.

Holoflector is a unique, interactive augmented-reality mirror. Graphics are superimposed correctly on your own reflection to enable a novel augmented-reality experience.

Most thinking about money assumes your financial life is separate from the rest of your life, but it is time to put those things back together.

What if you could talk to anyone, regardless of the language they spoke?

A still photograph is a limited format for capturing moments that span an interval of time.

Introducing Microsoft Translator’s new conversation feature for iOS and Android-- translate face to face conversations in a more natural way by simultaneously using your smartwatch and phone!

Gestures are becoming an increasingly popular means of interacting with computers. However, it is still relatively costly to deploy robust gesture-recognition sensors in existing mobile platforms.

This project is a depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces.

An overview of how Automatic Speech Recognition systems work and some of the challenges.

On January 16, 2014, Microsoft researchers and Windows Phone engineers set out to challenge the Guinness World Records fastest text message using a touch-screen mobile phone record.

In MirageTable, a 3-D stereoscopic projector projects content directly on top of the curved screen. The information is captured by the Kinect camera, which also tracks the user's gaze.

What habit do you want to change?

Many trading strategies are based on perceived relationships between the prices of different assets. Some of these relationships are based on fundamental relationships e.g.

Author and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a definitive solution for how to gain from disorder and chaos, while being protected from fragilities and adverse events.

Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for any researcher, but they aren’t easy.

Introducing a new real-time articulated hand tracker which can enable new possibilities for human-computer interaction (HCI).

Make your presentation slides available to a worldwide audience by using the translation features of Microsoft PowerPoint!

War is seemingly everywhere around us, and not just the war in Iraq. There are culture wars, internet wars, business wars, nasty political wars.

We present novel designs for virtual and augmented reality near-eye displays based on phase-only holographic projection.

Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology

One promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition.

See an example of 3D hand tracking research from Microsoft, in proceedings at SIGGRAPH 2016.