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Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation, is available for novice to experienced programmers on

Find out what it’s like to be an intern at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, UK.

Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC on November 4-5, 2016 at NYU/ITP. We'll discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement.

The Paxos algorithm is a widely adopted approach to reaching agreement in unreliable asynchronous distributed systems.

Spatial reaction-diffusion models have been employed to describe many emergent phenomena in biological systems.

This video is a short demonstration of our research efforts to make Holoportation truly mobile.

This is a demo video of the visualization tool for the HAMS project (Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety) at Microsoft Research India.

Demo of smartphone camera-based vehicle ranging as part of the HAMS Project (Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety) at Microsoft Research India See more on this video at

Demo of Bartendr showing battery energy saved while streaming video during a drive. See more on this video at microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/bartendr-demo-video

The digital age has transformed how researchers are able to study social behavior.

Matrix completion is a basic machine learning problem that has wide applications, especially in collaborative filtering and recommender systems.

Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC on November 4-5, 2016 at NYU/ITP. We'll discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement.

Optical flow is a critical component of video editing applications, e.g. for tasks such as object tracking, segmentation, and selection.

This paper contributes a real time method for recovering facial shape and expression from a single depth image.

We introduce a new representation for video which facilitates a number of common editing tasks.

We introduce a new representation for video which facilitates a number of common editing tasks.

Creating a layout for an augmented reality (AR) application which embeds virtual objects in a physical environment is difficult as it must adapt to any physical space.

KinectFusion enables a user holding and moving a standard Kinect camera to rapidly create detailed 3D reconstructions of an indoor scene.

We present a new real-time hand tracking system based on a single depth camera. The system can accurately reconstruct complex hand poses across a variety of subjects.

Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed, and transmitted anywhere in the world in real-time.

The local max-cut problem asks to find a partition of the vertices in a weighted graph such that the cut weight cannot be improved by moving a single vertex (that is the partition is locally optimal).

The local max-cut problem asks to find a partition of the vertices in a weighted graph such that the cut weight cannot be improved by moving a single vertex (that is the partition is locally optimal).

The local max-cut problem asks to find a partition of the vertices in a weighted graph such that the cut weight cannot be improved by moving a single vertex (that is the partition is locally optimal).

Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC on November 4-5, 2016 at NYU/ITP. We'll discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement.

As an increasing amount of daily activity---ranging from what we purchase to who we talk---shifts to online platforms, it is only natural to ask how those platforms impact our behavior.

Many simulation environments – particularly those intended for medical simulation – require solid objects to deform at interactive rates, with deformation properties that correspond to real materials.

Recent advances in both haptic rendering techniques and CPU power have made haptic feedback increasingly accessible on consumer hardware.

May 9, 2008 lecture by Dan Morris for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). MySong is a system that automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody.

Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC on November 4-5, 2016 at NYU/ITP. We'll discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement.

Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC on November 4-5, 2016 at NYU/ITP. We'll discuss all things bots: startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement.