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Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation, and

Learn how easy it is to move beyond your desktop using the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a highly scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure for big data computations.

Microsoft Azure provides researchers with convenient, cost-efficient, on-demand data analysis and collaboration—in the cloud, helping researchers accelerate the rate of scientific insight and

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The International Women's Hackathon is designed to empower, encourage, support, and retain more women in computer science at the university level. research.microsoft.com

Urban air quality -- the concentration of PM2.5 -- is of great importance in protecting human health.

ViiBoard is a system for remote collaboration through a digital whiteboard (PPI) that gives participants an immersive, 3-D experience with enhanced touch capability.

Tempe is an interactive system for exploring large data sets. It accelerates faster machine learning by facilitating quick, iterative feature engineering and data understanding.

Societies and governments around the world want to know how the biosphere is likely to change and what we can do to avoid or mitigate against it.

This project offers a method for creating 3-D scans of arbitrary environments in real time, utilizing only a single RGB camera as the input sensor.

ViiBoard is a system for remote collaboration through a digital whiteboard (PPI) that gives participants an immersive, 3-D experience with enhanced touch capability.

Holograph is an interactive, 3-D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of the display using a variety of 3-D stereographic techniques.

Many people are working on near-field user-interface devices that detect hover, gesture, and pose. But there is nothing in the space in front of a device to show the user what to do.

Watch an example of how Windows Phone's speech recognition feature, Cortana, incorporates machine learning and artificial intelligence on the Bing platform to do more than just respond to your voice

Presenting two new technologies that empower consumers to design and produce working physical devices customized to their particular needs: - A highly interactive, touch-first 3-D printing app

HereHere NYC is a research project that enables neighborhoods to generate opinions based on public data.

Projectors, tablets, and other devices, combined with depth cameras, enable applications to span multiple "screens." This work enables webpages to be experienced outside of your PC monitors to take

Larry Larsen from Channel 9 recently sat down with Leslie Lamport, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and 2013 Turing Award winner to talk about the impact of his work on computer science

The Situated Interaction project, a research effort co-led by Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond, and his colleague Dan Bohus

On January 16, 2014, Microsoft researchers and Windows Phone engineers set out to challenge the Guinness World Records fastest text message using a touch-screen mobile phone record.

This video provides research scientists with a comprehensive introduction to using Microsoft Azure for hosting websites.

This video introduces the topic of running virtual machines in Microsoft Azure for scientific research.

This video introduces research scientists to using Microsoft Azure for data storage.

This video provides research scientists with in-depth information about using the very wide variety of services that Microsoft Azure offers.

This video provides research scientists with in-depth information about using Microsoft Azure for data storage. You will learn about two storage services in detail: blobs and tables.

This video provides a comprehensive but brief overview of Microsoft Azure for research scientists.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used tools by researchers to manage, analyse, and visualize their data.

Paul Larson, Microsoft principal researcher, and Mike Zwilling, principal architect, Microsoft SQL Server, discuss how their collaboration led to the data-access improvements of the Hekaton

Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research is rewarded for his outstanding contributions to computer science with the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

HereHere NYC enables neighborhoods to generate opinions based on public data.