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The Skies Epitomized is a series of artworks exploring the essence of the sky from the perspective of humans gazing at it.

Scientists from the University of Washington were asked by the Washington state legislature to create predictions about ocean acidification for Pacific Northwest waters.

Introducing Microsoft Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter.

The popular Microsoft Selfie app has been updated with social sharing to Facebook, Twitter, WeChat as well as native apps for iOS users.

Introducing Microsoft Translator’s new conversation feature for iOS and Android-- translate face to face conversations in a more natural way by simultaneously using your smartwatch and phone!

With Microsoft Project Oxford ( aka.ms/projectoxford), Microsoft is empowering developers to build artificial intelligence powered apps using vision, speech and language APIs.

Peter Lee speaks at the 2015 21st Century Computing Conference in Beijing, an annual meeting of researchers and students focused on emerging trends in computer science.

Leslie Lamport speaks at the 2015 21st Century Computing Conference in Beijing, an annual meeting of researchers and students focused on emerging trends in computer science.

Michael Stonebraker speaks at the 2015 21st Century Computing Conference in Beijing, an annual meeting of researchers and students focused on emerging trends in computer science.

The introduction of cloud computing and machine learning is helping researchers identify ways to reduce hospital readmissions for chronic conditions and provide corresponding actionable guidelines

The USDA and Microsoft launched an innovation challenge at the Agriculture and Applied Economics Conference held in San Francisco, July 2015.

How might people use aggregated data and marketing intelligence to make decisions and allocate resources?

MobileFusion is a research project that turns ordinary mobile phones into 3D scanners without any additional hardware.

The Microsoft Research Enable Team responds with heart to the 2015 Ice Bucket Challenge from their partners Team Gleason and the ALSA Evergreen Chapter.

Photo Story, a new Windows Phone app, automatically chooses the best representative photos of an event and organizes them into a themed video, complete with stylized music and editing, that you can

Learn about the challenges associated with modeling uncertainty in computational systems and how programming models are being used to improve systems, such as GPS.

Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director of Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Washington, and Josh Tenenbaum, a professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's

Managing director and distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, Horvitz talks about AI, which he describes as the crashing crest of the wave of computer science.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Microsoft are sponsoring the Innovation Challenge, a competition to develop data-driven software applications that help visualize and explore

Got an email you can’t read? No problem. Want to respond even though you don’t know the language? You can do that too.

Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of machine teaching: an effort to help people without a machine learning background teach their systems to get better based on experience.

We present a new interactive approach to 3D scene understanding.

Senior researcher Rob DeLine describes how the Halo team uses Trill, a high-performance in-memory incremental analytics engine, and Tempe, a web service for exploratory data analysis, to monitor and

Microsoft Research, working with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, University of Pittsburgh and St.

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

Through our Joint Research Center program, Microsoft Research works closely with major research institutions to invest in the future of computer science.

Founded in 2005, the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre brings together the computer science expertise of Inria (the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied

Microsoft researchers have created a new system, called VC3, that keeps data stored in the cloud safe from prying eyes or malicious players even when it is being accessed to make calculations.

Yammer anticipates that message translation will drive greater international adoption and cross-cultural collaboration within and between organizations.

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.