News and reports...

• Computers Learn to Listen, and Some Talk Back, Steve Lohr and John Markoff, New York Times, June '10.
  
  
• Some high-level coverage of efforts on predictive models for readmissions in healthcare, Fast Company, July-August '12.
  
  
• NPR story on long-term futures for machine intelligence, All Things Considered, January '11.
  
  
• Ability to 'see' advances artificial intelligence, James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle, October '10 (team photo).
  
  
• To Win Over Users, Gadgets Have to Be Touchable, Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, September '10.
  
  
• How Microsoft Research foresaw Google's 'Priority Inbox' feature, Todd Bishop, TechFlash, September '10.
  
  
• Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots, Brooke Donald, Associated Press, December '09.
  
  
• A glut of Google can give you a virtual fever, Carolyn Butler, Washington Post, November '09.
  
  
• Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws, Gary Anthes, Communications of the ACM 52:11, November '09.
  
  
• Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots, Mike Cronin, Tribune Review, November '09.
  
  
• Surprise Modeling, Mitchell Waldrop, Technology Review, Ten Emerging Technologies, March 2008.
  
  
• Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding Traffic Jams , John Markoff, New York Times, April '08 (article on Clearflow project, basis of traffic-sensitive routing for 72 North American cities at http://maps.live.com).
  
  
• Six Degrees of Messaging, Katharine Sanderson, Nature, March '08. Results also discussed in articles in Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, with video discussions on CNBC and ABC.
  
  
• Microsoft Examines Causes of ‘Cyberchondria’, John Markoff, New York Times, Nov '08.
  
  
• Microsoft aims to turn PCs into personal assistants, teachers, Byron Acohido, USA Today, March '09.
  
  
• NPR Radio Discussion on E-Health, The Diane Rehm Show, December '08.
  
  
• NPR Radio Discussion on Machine Intelligence and Personal Assistance, NPR Weekend Edition, March '09.
  
  
• Minds, Machines, and Intelligence: A Conversation, Behind the Code series, Research Channel and MSDN Channel 9, February 2009.
  
  
• IBM, Intel, And Microsoft Tout Technology Future , Thomas Claburn, Information Week, April '07. Links to streaming video of the Gartner panel on innovation: initial portion (CNET) and whole session (Gartner).
  
  
• A.I. Reboots, Michael Hiltzik, MIT Technology Review, March '02.
  
  
• Some Vista, Office Innovations Spring from MS Research , Peter Galli, eWeek, January '07.
  
  
• Microsoft Sees Software Agent as Way to Avoid Distractions, John Markoff, New York Times, July '00 (article on Notification Platform and overall Attentional User Interface (AUI) project).
  
  
• Microsoft demos robotic receptionist, Ina Fried, CNET, July 2008.
  
  
• All the News that's Fit for Searching, Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, March 2004 (on research on personalized news) (...on Web)
  
  
• Microsoft Predicts The Future With Vista's SuperFetch, Gregg Keizer, Information Week, January '07.
  
  
• Intelligent software aims to give users peace of mind, Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March '05.
  
  
• Got a minute?, Alison Motluk, New Scientist, June '06.
  
  
• Charlie Rose Show: A Conversation about Artificial Intelligence, PBS Network, December 21, 2004. (Youtube version).
  
  
• Considerate Computing, Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American, January '05 (article reviewing Notification Platform and Bestcom projects).
  
  
• Electronic map keeps drivers away from jams, Celeste Biever, New Scientist, October '06.
  
  
• Microsoft software aims to predict traffic, Ellen Liang, King5.com, May '06.
  
  
• AI's Next Brain Wave: New research in artificial intelligence could lay the groundwork for computer systems that learn from their users and the world around them., Aaron Ricadela, Information Week, April 2005.
  
  
• PC, leave me alone – I’m busy, Danny Bradbury, Financial Times, April 2006.
  
  
• Viaje al futuro: Microsoft - El cerebro que nos cambió la vida , David Dudster, El Magazine, March 2007.
  
  
• Getting out from under: Beset by interruptions, information overload, and irksome technology, knowledge workers need help. A survival guide., Ellen McGirt, Fortune Magazine, March 2006.
  
  
• Emerging Technology: How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done, Discover Magazine, November 2005.
  
  
• Bill Gates Talks Seamless Computing, Information Week, December 2003.
  
  
• Awarding the Brains Behind AI, InformationWeek, October 2004.
  
  
• TechFest brings Microsoft's researchers and projects together, Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March '05.
  
  
• 18th-century theory is new force in computing, Michael Kanellos, CNET News, Febrary '03.
  
  
• Microsoft Shows Digital Message Filtering, Stephen Buel, Techweb News, March 2001.
  
  
• Search for Tomorrow, Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, February '04.
  
  
• Spam Killers, William Baldwin, Forbes Magazine, September 1998 (on research and development on detecting, filtering out junk email at Microsoft Research)
  
  
• Microsoft is Calling You, Phil Harvey, Red Herring, June '00 (article on Priorities and Notification Platform projects).
  
  
• 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World, Technology Review, February 2004.
  
  
• Anticiparallelism (aka Continual Computation). Gary Anthes, Computerworld, January 2002.
  
  
• From the Ether. Bob Metcalfe writes on some of his long-term and more recent passions, including continual computation.
  
  
• Science Friday, discussion on artificial intelligence, Host: Ira Flatow, National Public Radio, June 2001
  
  
• AI by another name, Economist, March 2002.
  
  
• Technically Speaking . William Van Winkle, CPU, March 2004.
  
  
• Power to the PC: Microsoft and others are betting that users want products that combine the speed of local computing with new Web services, Aaron Ricadela, Information Week, January 2001.
  
  
• Microsoft Invests in Mathematicians, Allyn Jackson, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, June-July 1998.
  
  
• Artificial intelligence isn't just a movie, Kevin Maney, USA Today, June 2001.
  
  
• Mobile Manager has an almost telepathic ability to distinguish junk mail from genuinely important messages, Economist, March 2001.
  
  
• Designing Your Next Office, Brad Stone, Newsweek Magazine, April 2003 (on extended presence, communications, Bestcom project
  
  
• The Ghost in the Machine: The Reverend Thomas Bayes lived in the 18th century, but his statistical theory is shaping data-management software in the 21st, Jane Black, Business Week, July 2001
  
  
• High Anxiety, Computer Business Review, January 2000.
  
  
• Sensitive Phones, MIT Technology Review, March 2002.
  
  
• Adding Art to the Rigor of Statistical Science, David Leonhardt, New York Times, April 2001
  
  Some other coverage...