 Newly Published Academic Papers
- Communication, Collaboration
and Signal Processing
- Interactive Visual Media
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The Microsoft Bay Area Research Center (BARC) was founded. BARC
researchers work primarily on issues that involve scalable servers and the
future of virtual communication, or “telepresence.” Jim Gray was
hired to lead BARC.
 Gordon
Bell,
known as the “the father of Digital’s VAX minicomputer,” was hired at BARC.
His project, MyLifeBits, aims to help you store your life online—from
documents to telephone conversations to photographs. In 1945,
Vannevar Bush envisioned a device he called a “memex” that would record
everything he’d read, recorded, or communicated. Bell has realized Bush’s memex as part of his MyLifeBits project.
BBT, an optimization tool developed by Microsoft Research, helped
programmers develop and ship Windows® 95 and Office 95. Researchers contributed to the Answer Wizard in Office 95. This feature
combines text analysis with user behavior to suggest help topics.
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