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Did you know that everything you see, touch, hear, smell, and taste makes up only 4 percent of what is actually out there?

Microsoft Research – 7 сентября 2016, 18:18

Many people have love-hate relationships with new inventions, and this conflict is inherent to all technology. But technology is also an extension of life, and an acceleration of the mind.

The key to a companyΓÇÖs success is the emotional investment of managers, and the key source of emotional commitment is the ability to use your core values at work.

So what is "the element" and how can you find yours? To truly be in your element, both passion and skill need to come together.

A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown; its purpose-a mystery. One of its passengers wakes up, finding himself naked, wet and freezing to death.

ΓÇ£In 1930, Gandhi walked for 23 days. At the end of it, he picked up a fist of salt. That changed IndiaΓÇÖs history forever. Today you donΓÇÖt need to walk.

We live in a world of constant connections. With our mobile devices, we are always just a text message away from our friends, and can submerse ourselves in a virtual world anytime, anywhere.

Our present is a time defined by frenzied change, a world is which everything is growing faster and more connected at an exponential rate, and we are at a ΓÇ£nodal pointΓÇ¥--a key point in history

In the confusing (and often contradictory) world of food safety, appliances, ingredients and recipes, we can rely upon science to guide us from market to table.

In this new futuristic thriller the world keeps getting tougher and more complicated, as America teeters on the edge of bankruptcy because of crushing foreign debt.

The best companies know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that canΓÇÖt be outsourced. The best schools are those with deep cultures of creative problem solving.

Since the 1930ΓÇÖs, science fiction has wowed audiences with the promise that in the future: automobiles would fly, teleporting would be commonplace and invisibility would be an option for one and

To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything.

It is time to debunk the long standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, as we look at astounding new evidence that proves it is, in fact a biological process created by the

Everyone is interested in getting their ideas adopted. But businesses report that only four percent of innovation initiatives succeed in meeting their financial objectives.

Nick Baker is General Manager for Xbox Architectural Design.

Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution?

What if you never had to forget anything?

True persuasion is not about arm twisting or out-maneuvering your adversary; true persuasion is the creation of consensus from conflict or indifference.

For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers.

We examine a repeated interaction between an agent, who undertakes experiments, and a principal who provides the requisite funding for these experiments.

As documented in Ben MezrichΓÇÖs bestselling book Bringing Down the House and the film 21, Jeffrey Ma and his cohorts on the infamous MIT Blackjack team used math, statistics and teamwork to beat

Between them, Levi Strauss and Quaker managed to lose $2.4 billion because they failed to read what was happening in the world around them.

Economists' analysis of mechanism design under incomplete information relies on strong assumptions about economic agents' beliefs and common knowledge of those beliefs.

This talk will demonstrate new technologies that help measure and communicate emotion, and describe ways in which these open up whole new lines of research.

Over the last 200 years, technology has transformed nearly every other industry across the globe except for one: our schools.

LOGICOMIX is about the quest for the foundations of mathematics in the beginning of the 20th century, the subtle ways in which its ultimate failure brought about the computer.

How does one build an empire on pictures of cats with silly, misspelled captions?

Localized Optimization: Exploiting non-orthogonality to efficiently minimize the Kohn-Sham Energy With the constantly increasing power of computers, the realm of experimental chemistry is