The Software Analytics Group at Microsoft Research Asia offers a data-driven approach to improving Microsoft products and services.

Engkoo Pinyin was only supposed to revolutionize input-method editor (IME) technology, but agile work from an innovative team put it on the fast track to becoming a product. In April 2013, Engkoo Pinyin made its debut as Bing IME.

Now in its 15th year, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program has attracted nearly a thousand applicants from more than 50 universities in the Asia Pacific region.

CHI 2013 is all about pushing the boundaries of human-computer interaction (HCI). During this year’s event, 27 papers from Microsoft Research present innovations that re-imagine the computing experience from multiple HCI disciplines.

Christopher Bishop, distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discusses machine learning shortly before the opening of the Machine Learning Summit 2013, to be held April 22-24 just outside of Paris.

What do astronomy and business intelligence have in common? Look behind GeoFlow’s sophisticated, interactive 3-D data-visualization for Excel, and you’ll find its origins in the WorldWide Telescope project.

TechFest 2013 demonstrates how Microsoft Research scientists are finding new approaches to help people sift through big data and designing novel, more natural ways to interact with computing devices.

Jeannette Wing, new head of Microsoft Research International, discusses her career, her reasons for joining Microsoft, and what she sees ahead.

Microsoft Research and the Office 2013 team have collaborated on Flash Fill, a tool that quickly and easily automates hundreds of tasks.

Databases are about to get a big boost in performance. Hekaton, in-memory technology for the next major release of SQL Server, promises five to 50 times gains in transaction throughput.

Microsoft Research India has developed a biometric monitoring system to help patients complete tuberculosis treatment programs.

Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research Cambridge, working with colleagues from Inria, recently delivered a computer-assisted proof of the Feit-Thompson Theorem, which when first published 50 years ago, took two volumes and 255 pages to contain it.

During UIST 2012, Microsoft Research showed revolutionary new interfaces, including a wrist-worn sensor that recovers the full 3-D pose of the user's hand without needing “data gloves.”

Microsoft—and Microsoft Research in particular—are demonstrating a commitment to encourage more girls and young women to consider a career in computer science during the 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Scientists from Microsoft Research Cambridge are presenting a project that aims to provide more accurate measurements to help surgeons and oncologists treat patients with the most aggressive form of brain tumor.

David Rothschild of Microsoft Research New York City is using the 2012 U.S. presidential election as an opportunity to refine prediction-markets techniques that soon could be extended to the economic realm.

As Microsoft Research completes its 20th-anniversary year, we wanted to shine a light on Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, which celebrated a decade’s worth of research contributions this year.

Thanks in part to the scientific expertise of the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Microsoft has been named the first corporate partner of the Red List of Threatened Species.

Microsoft Research scientists have collaborated with colleagues from Windows Azure Storage to reduce data-storage costs.

Interns don’t have to be computer-science majors to spend a summer at Microsoft Research. Diverse fields of study enrich projects when interns bring expertise from other domains to the labs.

Microsoft Research holds its annual Faculty Summit 2012 on July 16 and 17, and much of this year’s event will be streamed to interested individuals around the world.

A Microsoft Research India team uses paper cards and inexpensive webcams to help teachers in developing countries gauge student responses.

Microsoft Research Cambridge researcher Helena Mentis is part of a U.K. research team exploring a way for surgeons to manipulate medical images with a wave of a hand.

Feelings affect human behavior, direct our actions, and influence our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world around us. New research extracts emotional states from large-scale expressions of mood shared through social media.

Pioneering young academic researchers are recognized for their pursuits in key computer-science areas.