
Forget the sequins. Cold, hard data predicts that Europe will vote for Denmark at the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, says a top researcher at Microsoft. | News detailsDate: 17 May 2013 Type: Headline |
A new delivery concept from Microsoft Research uses the location of random strangers to TwedEx parcels directly to you – wherever you are. | News detailsDate: 16 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Duncan Watts, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, has been appointed as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at his alma mater, Cornell University. | News detailsDate: 15 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Just in time for the release of the latest Star Trek movie, the language Klingon, familiar to all admirers of the long-lived TV and film franchise, is now supported by Bing Translator, with help from Microsoft Research. | News detailsDate: 14 May 2013 Type: Headline |
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. | News detailsDate: 13 May 2013 Type: Feature Story |
Microsoft Research Connections and the São Paulo Research Foundation are hosting an eScience Workshop from May 13 to 15 in São Paulo. | News detailsDate: 13 May 2013 Type: Headline |
David Rothschild of Microsoft Research New York City discusses his data-based predictions for the Eurovision song contest. | News detailsDate: 13 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research, discusses that group's contributions to the movie Iron Man 3. | News detailsDate: 13 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Kati London, newly arrived at Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs, brings a unique perspective to her social-oriented explorations. | News detailsDate: 7 May 2013 Type: Headline |
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. | News detailsDate: 6 May 2013 Type: Feature Story |
Microsoft researchers are investigating whether Twitter could help spot signs of postpartum depression in new mothers based on changes in how and what they tweet. | News detailsDate: 3 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Wearable computer prototype uses context to determine information displayed. | News detailsDate: 1 May 2013 Type: Headline |
An Interactive Belt-worn Badge with a Retractable String-based Input Mechanism, a note from Microsoft Research Cambridge accepted for CHI 2013, describes a computing prototype device designed to provide quick, easy access to useful information. | News detailsDate: 1 May 2013 Type: Headline |
'If you're aware there's a computer there, we've failed,' says Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research. | News detailsDate: 1 May 2013 Type: Headline |
Economists who correctly predicted President Obama's re-election nine months before the election attribute their forecasting success to "small data." | News detailsDate: 30 April 2013 Type: Headline |
Research from Microsoft Research India, accepted as a paper to be delivered during this week’s CHI 2013 conference, has identified ways to make it easier for people with little or no education to navigate through computer user interfaces. | News detailsDate: 30 April 2013 Type: Headline |
United Slates is a digital-age active-reading system that combines the best features of paper and electronic text, developed in part by Microsoft Research's Nicholas Chen. | News detailsDate: 29 April 2013 Type: Headline |
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. | News detailsDate: 29 April 2013 Type: Feature Story |
Code Digger, an extension for Visual Studio 2012 based on the Pex tool from Microsoft Research, has been released to enable software developers to analyze excecution paths through .NET code. | News detailsDate: 28 April 2013 Type: Headline |
danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England delivered an engaging keynote address about teenagers and online privacy during the Tech Forum 2013 conference in Boston. | News detailsDate: 28 April 2013 Type: Headline |
The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit brought more than 230 thought leaders to Paris from April 22 to 24 to discuss key challenges and new approaches to machine learning. | News detailsDate: 26 April 2013 Type: Headline |
Iain Buchan, a professor at the University of Manchester, offers suggestions on how machine learning could have a powerful influence on improving people’s healthcare. | News detailsDate: 24 April 2013 Type: Headline |
A chat with Rick Rashid, chief research officer at Microsoft. | News detailsDate: 24 April 2013 Type: Headline |
Hermann Hauser enlivened the second morning of Microsoft Research’s Machine Learning Summit 2013 with a riveting keynote, looking back and then peering into the future. | News detailsDate: 24 April 2013 Type: Headline |
Infer.NET, a project from Microsoft Research Cambridge, delivers machine-learning algorithms to solve individualized problems. | News detailsDate: 23 April 2013 Type: Headline |
