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Direct touch manipulations enable the user to interact with the on-screen content in a direct and easy manner closely mimicking the spatial manipulations in the physical world.

This video introduces Microsoft's brand new Touch Mouse, a high-precision mouse with multi-touch gestures.

This paper describes an interactive immersive experience using mid-air gestures to interact with a large curved dis-play: a projected dome.

Simon Mercer, a director in the Microsoft Research Connections group, provides an overview of the improvements and features of the beta release of MBF version 2.

Current business conditions have given rise to a particular kind of distributed team that is mostly collocated except for one remote member.

In honor of U.S. Computer Science Education Week 2009, Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer, shares some thoughts regarding computer science education.

We present a novel multi-touch pen ( MTPen ) prototype and discuss its alternate uses beyond those of a standard stylus, such as allowing new touch gestures to be performed using the index finger or

Sphere is a multi-user, multi-touch-sensitive spherical display in which an infrared camera used for touch sensing shares the same optical path with the projector used for the display.

In this video, Roger Barga, architect in the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research, provides an overview of the features of Excel DataScope, a tool that enables researchers and data analysts

In this short interview, Kristin Tolle, Director of the Health and Wellbeing Group at Microsoft External Research, talks about mHealth, what it means to healthcare, and the goals of the mHealth

Dan Fay, director of the Earth, Energy, and Environment effort at Microsoft Research, talks about the Terapixel Project.

Learn how the WorldWide Telescope makes it easy to explore the universe from your own computer.

Demonstrates LOD and real time flythrough of procedural objects with procedurally defined textures.

The WorldWide Telescope is more than a virtual telescope of the night sky; it is a learning tool that allows users to interact with it in creative ways.

Demonstrates real time procedural texturing.

A demonstration of Microsoft Research Software Radio (Sora) system. A total software implementation of 802.11a/b/g baseband on Sora is communicating with a standard AP.

A behind-the-scenes look at the research and technology that brought Project Natal to life.

View amazing images of the universe through the technology of WorldWide Telescope.

Video Pal is a novel computer mediated, video based asynchronous communication system.

In order to use new visualizations, most toolkits require application developers to rebuild their applications and distribute new versions to users.

Microsoft Research staff and past Faculty Fellows talk about the purpose and benefits of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.

Today's Internet is open and anonymous. While it permits free traffic from any host, attackers that generate malicious traffic typically cannot be held accountable.

The European Science Initiative (ESI) at Microsoft Research Cambridge presents, Science for the 21st Century.

Making Wikipedia more multilingual inspired creation of the WikiBhasha tool.

Brian Zill provides a technical overview of the Hawaii project.

Microsoft Research Senior Program Manager Michael Zyskowski discusses how the Sequence Assember can be used to study the long read format of DNA sequences, and demonstrates how to perform sequence

In this video highlight from the 2009 mHealth Summit, Joel Robertson of Robertson Research Institute talks about the NxOpinion Mobile Data Platform.

In this video highlight from the 2009 mHealth Summit, James Black of the University of Melbourne talks about cell phone applications for clinical diagnostic therapeutic and public health use by

Microsoft researchers discuss F# and the many usage sceniaros made available from the application.

In this video highlight from the 2009 mHealth Summit, Eric Douglas of the University of California, Berkeley, talks about CellScope, a medical microscope for diagnosis that uses a cell phone camera