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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

This demo shows how an integrated Constraint Solver can leverage Excel for product configuration. Presented at AAAI'07 W. on Configuration.

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.

CLAW extends the concept of a VR controller to a multifunctional haptic tool, using a single motor. At first glance, it looks very similar to your standard VR controller.

Reinforcement learning is a body of theory and techniques for optimal sequential decision making developed in the last thirty years primarily within the machine learning and operations research

Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child's analytical ability.

The video shows a simulation of the quadrotor flight in a sub-urban environment. The visuals depict how the camera mounted on the quadrotor perceives the world.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the Seeing AI prototype along with software engineer Saqib Shaikh at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference.

Thumb + Pen Interaction on Tablets addresses the simultaneous, and complementary, use of pen & touch modalities for interaction in laptop scenarios, such as when using a Surface tablet on the couch

You can help protect a child, maybe even your child. The statistics show that 20-30 of our boys and girls are sexually abused, and often by someone they know.

Text in natural images possesses rich information for image understanding. Detecting and recognizing text facilitates many important applications.

Landmarks often play a key role in face analysis, but many aspects of identity or expression cannot be represented by sparse landmarks alone.

Working in secrecy to solve highly classified problems for the Department of Defense, CIA, and NSA is an elite group of scientific advisors who provide the government with analyses on defense and

Can we trust our intuitions? Daniel Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust instincts, exploring the machinery of the mind and the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices.

Led by Harry Shum, EVP of AI and Research at Microsoft, presenters discuss everyday AI in Bing, Cortana, Office 365 and a partnership with Reddit announced by Alexis Ohanian.

Microsoft Research had the pleasure of hosting Bill Gates at this year’s Faculty Summit for a conversation on the Future Of Work with Eric Horvitz.

Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched?  What is it about its

Andy Wilson, senior researcher and Hrvoje Benko, researcher, both from Microsoft Research explain their LightSpace research project.

Larry Larsen from Channel 9 recently sat down with Leslie Lamport, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and 2013 Turing Award winner to talk about the impact of his work on computer science

Researchers and engineers in Microsoft’s Advanced Technologies Lab in Israel are investigating ways in which developers could create tools that would allow people to communicate with their computer

Do you come passionately alive at work and relish the role that work plays in your life? If not, Dr. Srikumar Rao has an invitation for you.

FarmBeats, a new agriculture research project developed by Microsoft, uses solar-powered white space-based Internet connectivity to record soil temperature and moisture levels and track them with

The popular "barefoot" or minimalist running trend changed the way we think about running, but it has also prompted many questions: Have we been running the wrong way?

Short Text Channel speaks text as soon as it appears in front of the camera. Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you.

KinÊtre is a research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge that allows novice users to scan physical objects and bring them to life in seconds by using their own bodies to animate them.

Watch this brief tutorial to learn how to capture and share the perfect photo with the new BLINK application. More information: research.microsoft.com/blink

How do you search over architectures? View presentation slides and more at microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/advanced-machine-learning-day-3-neural-architecture-search

What does it mean for online content to "go viral"?

With BLINK for Windows Phone 8, you'll never miss the best shot. BLINK captures a burst of images beginning even before you press the shutter and continuing beyond.

I will present the main algorithms to achieve robust, 6-DOF, state estimation for mobile robots using passive sensing.