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Michel Pahud demonstrates the research project of an Actuated 3-D Display with Haptic Feedback.

Perfect for moments like dinner with friends, Microsoft Xim is simply a better way to share because you don’t have to pass your phone around to people.

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

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.

John Platt of Microsoft Research discusses deep learning and what makes it different from other types of machine learning. The full interview can be found at: youtu.be/2SXZ-NsKfwg

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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