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Frank Herbert wrote over 30 bestselling books during his lifetime, including the now classic six novels set in the Dune universe.

Theoretical physicist Smolin argues that the study of physics has lost its way in the past two decades, largely because string theory has captured the imagination of both the public and some

KinectFusion enables a user holding and moving a standard Kinect camera to rapidly create detailed 3D reconstructions of an indoor scene.

Product Channel gives audio beeps to help locate barcodes and then scans them to identify products. Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you.

Many key data science tasks are about decision-making. They require understanding the causes of an event and how to take action to improve future outcomes.

A new Microsoft Research project aims to use autonomous drones, cutting-edge molecular biology and advanced cloud-based data analytics to detect early signs that potentially harmful diseases are

The memristor is a new 2-terminal electronic element that complements the classic repertoire of fundamental circuit components consisting of the resistor, inductor and capacitor.

It is time to debunk the long standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, as we look at astounding new evidence that proves it is, in fact a biological process created by the

Extreme classification is a rapidly growing research area focusing on multi-class and multi-label problems involving an extremely large number of labels.

What is the universal inference engine for neural networks? Tensorflow? PyTorch? Keras?

The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience.

A 3D animation of DNA strand displacement.

Microsoft researchers’ innovations add a virtual keyboard and voice replies to Microsoft Band, along with machine-learning enhancements to canned responses. research.microsoft.com

What passes for negotiation in most of the world ΓÇô threats, power plays, walking out, invoking alternatives, win-wins, good cop/bad cop techniques, actually invoke resentment and retaliation, from

Introduces the Joulemeter software energy monitoring tool developed at MSR. research.microsoft.com/joulemeter

In the last few years, neural representation learning approaches have achieved very good performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as language modeling and machine translation.

The Laboratory of Biomedical Database Systems at the Silesian University of Technology provides various algorithmic solutions for protein analysis.

A Panorama of the Skies is an audiovisual installation created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research.

Because we live in an age of cross-country bicycle racing and high-tech mountain bikes, we may overlook the decades of development and ingenuity that transformed the basic concept of human-powered

We present the first real-time technique to synthesize full bandwidth sounds for 2D virtual wind instruments.

ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything.

In recent years, the log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) has become the mainstream core data structure used by key-value stores to ingest and persist data quickly.

AirSim, a Microsoft research project for developing autonomous vehicles, now includes car simulation. The new version is available now on GitHub as an open-source, cross-platform offering.

Arguably, most excitement about deep learning revolves around the performance of convolutional neural networks and their ability to automatically extract useful features from signals.

In thirty years of negotiation work, William Ury has learned that the most essential skill in negotiating and resolving conflicts is the one the vast majority of us have the most difficulty

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system that can track – in real time – all the sophisticated and nuanced hand motions that people make in their everyday lives.

Learn how Microsoft Translator can be used to help teachers better communicate with students who are non-native speakers, deaf or hard of hearing, dyslexic, or having trouble taking notes.

Scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington have reached an early but important milestone in synthetic DNA storage by storing 200 megabytes of data on the molecular strands.

Learn how Kinect is being used to help people with motor recovery after a stroke.