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Before long, we all could have large office displays, but how will we interact with them? One way could be to have interaction menus appear next to a pen-holding hand.

This project presents non-expert Excel users a set of machine-learning tools seamlessly integrated into Excel.

By 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States, yet at the current rate of job growth, only 29 percent of future computer scientists will be women.

Reading science fictions over the past one hundred years, one sees many seemingly impossible machines and services, which are now not only widely available, but have become accepted as natural.

Jeannette M. Wing's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Daniela Rus's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Michael I. Jordan's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

John Hopcroft's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Peter Lee's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Rick Rashid's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

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.

The 2013 release of TryF# is an easy on-ramp into learning, creating and sharing with the power of F# 3.0 that can solve real-world analytical programming and information rich problems.

The new release of Try F# makes F# 3.0 programming easy to learn, simple to use, and share.

Deliberately located near a multitude of academic and research institutions, Microsoft Research New England is well positioned to tap into insights commonly found at the boundaries of disciplines.

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected

Chair of the Computing at School Working Group (CAS) and Microsoft Principal Researcher, Simon Peyton-Jones, talks about CAS and the work they are doing to promote the teaching of computer science

During the last decade an entirely new approach to studying biology has emerged from the collaboration of traditional biologists with those trained in other fields.

Microsoft Research develops a biometric monitoring system to help patients complete tuberculosis treatment programs.

Microsoft Research is only scratching the surface when it comes to developing new ways users can naturally interact with computers, or, with the aid of small natural user interface devices, interact

Every second counts when combating a wildfire. Time lost can result in devastating loss of life or property.

Although researchers are able to collect, store, and analyze tremendous volumes of data, technological and storage limitations can severely impact the speed at which these data can be analyzed.

Naiad, now available for download, is an investigation of data-parallel dataflow computation in the spirit of Dryad and DryadLINQ, but with a focus on incremental computation.

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

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.

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as potential explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes.

This video shows a demonstration of our in-place commands that work on direct touch displays.

For more than 75 years, elections forecasting has been static—ask a random sample of a representative group of voters who they would vote for if the election were held today, and then report the

Over the last decade, technical and infrastructural developments have created a nurturing environment for developing applications of machine learning and reasoning—and for harnessing automated

Renowned scientists explain why research and innovation not only is essential to economic development, but how even the smallest of ideas that improve products can help make someone's life better.

Jeannette Wing, Professor of Computer Science and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University, says the most important part of Microsoft Research is its unique, ongoing commitment to computer