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Microsoft Research Connections collaborates with and supports the work of the worldΓÇÖs top academic researchers and institutions.

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.

This tutorial shows you how to use the DataUp web application, a tool that is designed to help environmental scientists easily upload files, create and manage metadata, create a unique data

In this document browser the arrangement of related words and themes on the grid naturally guides the user's attention to topics of interest.

Paul Mitchell from Microsoft chairs this lively panel discussion at Faculty Summit 2012. How the Internet should be governed has become a hot topic in recent months.

SecondLight is a new type of multi-touch interaction surface which allows an image to be projected through the display surface in addition to the image which is rendered on the surface itself.

In this paper we present the results of a study of human preferences in using mid-air gestures for directing other humans.

Watch this 30-second video for a brief summary of what kind of work the Microsoft Research Connections team does.

In the 40 years since the introduction of the mouse, computing input has remained much the same: itΓÇÖs you, the mouse, the keyboard, and the screen.

Talk by Dr. Ravi Kannan at TechVista 2012, Kolkata, India.

We describe two new approaches to human pose estimation. Both can quickly and accurately predict the 3D positions of body joints from a single depth image, without using any temporal information.

In the surgical theatre vascular surgeons are relient on live fluroscopy images to guide the opperation procedure.

In this interview during the 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft FUSE Labs, talks about the role of social media in research.

The sexual trafficking of minors has become one of the scourges of modern society.

Special session at TechVista 2012 involving the Guests of Honor Sri Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, HonΓÇÖble Minister for Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal and Sri Partha Chatterjee

Rick Rashid's talk at TechVista 2012, Kolkata, India.

SideSight supports virtual multi-ΓÇ£touchΓÇ¥ interactions around the body of a small mobile device.

Computing increasingly enables the introduction of new products and new ways to work together, resulting in a growing requirement for skills, knowledge, and research capabilities that are the domain

The upcoming negotiations on the treaty that regulates international telecom has thrown the standards for Internet governance up for grabs.

Representations of probability and utility lie at the heart of a two-decade rolling revolution in machine learning and intelligence.

What do you do when your students are more interested in their phone than in what youΓÇÖre trying to teach them?

A collection of demos from UW CSE 481m demos from Spring '11

In this interview during the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012, David Breashears, mountaineer and filmmaker, discusses the 11 expeditions that his non-profit organization, GlacierWorks, made to

we present Viewport , a fully distributed system for immersive teleconferencing.

Coming to your computer: watch a live broadcast of the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2012.

Q&A session at TechVista 2012, Kolkata, India.

Coming to your computer: watch a broadcast of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit streamed live from Redmond, Washington, on July 16 and 17 from 9:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.

A video showing our technology for the automatic localization of anatomical structures within 3D CT scans.

Coming to your computer: watch a broadcast of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit streamed live from Redmond, Washington, on July 16 and 17 from 9:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.

This video shows how IllumiShare provides a delightful remote play experience when coupled with a Skype video connection.