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The growing human population with increasing resource use per capita is causing an alarming loss and degradation of ecosystems.

Chair: Richard Banks, Microsoft Research Speakers: Rob Girling, Artefact; Nikki Barton, Microsoft; Jon Rogers, University of Dundee How do you design devices that people really love?

Chair: Jaime Puente, Microsoft Research Speaker: Tony Hey, Vice President, Microsoft Research The term ubiquitous computing, and the rich research it engenders, has been with us for many years.

The number of connected devices with capabilities to send data to the cloud is growing every day.

Hadoop is the de-facto standard for processing large datasets. In close collaboration with the Microsoft Hadoop team we are developing an Azure service to accelerate Hadoop jobs.

Analysis of medical images is essential in modern medicine.

Living cells are highly sophisticated computational machines, constantly processing information to survive, grow and reproduce.

ΓÇ¢AfkarΓÇÖ is an Arabic word for ΓÇÿideas,ΓÇÖ and the goal of Microsoft Afkar is to give Arabic speakers tools to devise their own new ideas. Arabic poses particular challenges for translators.

Project Greenwich is a website that allows people to create timelines of any subject they want to present chronologically.

Our everyday tasks involve multiple technologies: email for communicating, Office applications for authoring and reading, Internet browsers for searching and accessing online resources etc.

Human computation and crowdsourcing are new paradigms for leveraging the intelligence of groups of people to solve problems.

Big data is a big topic, but the benefits are largely limited to big organisations who can employ data analysts with a raft of rare technical skills.

We present a wrist-worn sensor that recovers the full 3D pose of the userΓÇÖs hand without requiring any external sensing infrastructure or covering the hand itself (unlike data gloves).

KinEtre allows novice users to scan arbitrary physical objects and bring them to life in seconds. The fully interactive system allows diverse static meshes to be animated using the entire human body.

A presentation from the Games, Networks and Markets event held in Cambridge UK between 28-29 June 2012.

This project is aimed at re-designing how people interface with web resources. It aspires to create a better fit between the web and the physical and social landscape of the home.

This project is aimed at re-designing how people interface with web resources. It aspires to create a better fit between the web and the physical and social landscape of the home.

A presentation from the Games, Networks and Markets event held in Cambridge UK between 28-29 June 2012.

A presentation from the Games, Networks and Markets event held in Cambridge UK between 28-29 June 2012.

A presentation from the Games, Networks and Markets event held in Cambridge UK between 28-29 June 2012.

Internal MS Contact: Jennifer Haas (jehaas) Press Contact: Tom Parnell at tparnell@waggeneredstrom.com

A presentation from the Games, Networks and Markets event held in Cambridge UK between 28-29 June 2012.

Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language.

Chair: James Scott, Microsoft Research Speakers: Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University; Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge; Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research Through the trends of the

Video Portrait of Georges Gonthier, Principal Researcher and winner of the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science.

Kinected Browser bridges the Kinect for Windows SDK and Internet Explorer, allowing developers to create interactive Web pages that use skeleton tracking and depth data.

TouchDevelop is a development environment for mobile and Web apps that runs on phones, tablets, PCs, and even giant touchscreens.

Digits, a wrist-worn gloveless sensor developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K., enables 3-D computer interaction in any environment and is practical beyond computer gaming.

Today's youth are sharing a tremendous amount of information through social media.

The creation of intelligent computing systems that perceive, learn, and reason has been a long-standing and visionary goal in computer science.