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Holograph is an interactive, 3-D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of the display using a variety of 3-D stereographic techniques.

Project Adam is a new deep-learning system modeled after the human brain that has greater image classification accuracy and is 50 times faster than other systems in the industry.

Imagine a biological computer that operates inside a living cell, one that can be used to determine if a cell is cancerous and then trigger its death.

We explore the concept of a sparse peripheral display, which augments the field-of-view of a head-mounted display with a lightweight, low-resolution, inexpensively produced array of LEDs surrounding

Presentation Translator is an Office add-in for PowerPoint that enables presenters to display live, translated subtitles.

This video shows how holographic storage works, using green light to write data as a persistent hologram inside an optical crystal.

Microsoft Research "lets the dogs out" on stage during Harry Shum's 2014 Faculty Summit keynote.

Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the

The Microsoft Translator live feature transforms your favorite device into your own personal universal translator where you can have real conversations with people across different languages.

We present a new interactive approach to 3D scene understanding.

We present PIVOT, a wrist-worn haptic device that renders virtual objects into the user’s hand on demand.

The past century, dubbed the 'Age of Genocide,ΓÇ¥ saw more than 60 million people murdered to meet the needs of the state.

Human Interact is using Microsoft Cognitive Services for Starship Commander, an interactive virtual reality science fiction game that gives players control over the narrative using real conversation.

Analysis of medical images is essential in modern medicine.

AI deep learning expert and University of Montreal Professor Yoshua Bengio talks about deep learning—what it is, how it got there, where it’s going, and how you can learn more about it.

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

The human body has undergone numerous changes over millions of yearsΓÇöweΓÇÖve moved onto two feet, away from a fruit-based diet, into superlative athletic abilities, and with very large brains.

SketchInsight is an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data by using real-time sketching. Creating personalized, expressive data charts becomes quick and easy.

“Soundscape fills in a lot of the mental map as you move, making it effortless and seamless to know what’s around you,” highlights Erin Lauridsen of Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco.

ProDeaf, an application vendor specializing in developing technologies to support the hard-of-hearing and deaf communities, integrated the new Microsoft Translator Speech Translation API into their

Modern data often consists of feature vectors with a large number of features.

The legendary Omaha investor has sworn never to write a memoir, but now has allowed one writer unprecedented access to explore directly with him and those closest to him his work, opinions

Mano-a-Mano is a unique spatial augmented reality system that combines dynamic projection mapping, multiple perspective views and device-less interaction to support face to face, or dyadic

Understanding why a machine learning model makes a certain prediction can be as crucial as the prediction's accuracy in many applications.

Among Microsoft Research's contributions to SIGGRAPH 2014, a machine learning technique for estimating absolute, per-pixel depth using any conventional monocular 2D camera, with minor hardware

Learn how to use the Microsoft Translator extension for the Microsoft Edge web browser to instantly translate web pages from any of the supported languages.

The HAMS project at Microsoft Research India has been used to automate driver license testing, by having a windshield-mounted smartphone use its front/rear camera and other sensors, to monitor the

The Thousand Brains Theory: A Framework for Understanding the Neocortex and Building Intelligent Machines Recent advances in reverse engineering the neocortex reveal that it is a highly-distributed

Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) and Microsoft Research Connections (MRC) are working together to develop a non-invasive, technological solution that promises to improve both the

Having made its debut at UIST 2014, RoomAlive uses multiple projectors to adapt interactive content that makes use of all of a room’s walls.