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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

Making the case that current research has just scratched the surface of what is possible for the future of computing, Andy van Dam, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, indicates that

In his keynote to the 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research, discusses efforts on machine learning and

Oren Etzioni, Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor at the University of Washington, describes how his background in machine learning ultimately led him to consider how to solve

KinÊtre is a research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge that allows novice users to scan physical objects and bring them to life in seconds by using their own bodies to animate them.

In Kodu: Mars Edition, explore, learn, and play new levels. Use new rover with multiple features, and search for new terrain!

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

Microsoft is focused on encouraging and enabling more women to get involved in computer science.

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately

Lucy Sanders, CEO of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, briefly explains how Microsoft Research incorporates a key component that helps drive technological design and

Researcher Siân Lindley talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Computational Biologist Jasmin Fisher talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research.

In this talk, Dongmei Zhang, research manager from Microsoft Research Asia, will discuss the Code Clone analysis techniques that Microsoft Research has created to help developers find similar code.

This panel of researchers from Microsoft Research Cambridge discusses the field of software verification, looking back at its history, the latest successes and what challenges the future holds.

The world is full of textures, be it faces, buildings, bar codes, or license plates. There are many local similarities and symmetries.

Distributed Computing has been a key focus for the Silicon Valley lab since its inception, Mihai Budiu, Researcher at Microsoft Silicon Valley talks about the importance of this work, especially

A great deal of research on security has taken place within Microsoft over the years.

Principal Researcher Abigail Sellen talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research.

Anna Karlin, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, speaks about embracing frustration in research as a helpful component to achieving your goal.

ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything.

Making the case that current research has just scratched the surface of what is possible for the future of computing, Andy van Dam, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, indicates that

While many technologies remain out-of-reach for households in the developing world, one exception to this rule is that of entertainment technologies.

Stratus enables efficient connectivity to mobile devices by reducing bytes transferred as well as saving energy during cellular data communication.

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately

Can your laptop show you two different views simultaneously? The answer is yes and here is how. Twisted Nematic (TN) is the most widely used LCD technology today, especially on laptop screens.

When performing complex gestures that require a specific form or technique, such as an exercise or playing an instrument, we use resources such as visual diagrams or videos to communicate concepts

Gestures are becoming an increasingly popular means of interacting with computers. However, it is still relatively costly to deploy robust gesture-recognition sensors in existing mobile platforms.

Humantenna senses whole-body gestures without any instrumentation to the environment and only minimal instrumentation to the user.