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All rights reserved. en-US Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:00:06 GMT 720 Irish universities are getting in on the idea of digitised, interactive libraries, with a new partnership between Trinity College Dublin and Microsoft Research, egineered by Tony Hey, corporate vice president of External Research, setting the tone. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/trinity-110609.aspx Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT A small, wearable camera, produced by Microsoft Research, that captures images automatically could change the way memory loss patients, in particular those with Alzheimer's, are treated, experts say. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/sensecam-110509.aspx Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:08:00 GMT Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar long-term plan to deepen its research roots in the country. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/mtfuji-110509.aspx Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:10:00 GMT Commute UX, a project from the Speech Technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond, is designed to make driving more pleasurable—and less distracting. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/commuteux_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/commuteux_lg.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/commuteux_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/commuteux-110509.aspx Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? Butler Lampson of Microsoft Research New England says it's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/lampson-110309.aspx Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT SixthSense is a platform for RFID-based enterprise intelligence that combines RFID events with information from other enterprise systems and sensors to automatically make inferences about people, objects, workspaces, and their interactions. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/sixthsense-110209.aspx Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Microsoft Research believes there are abundant opportunities for mobile technologies to improve public health, particularly in underserved communities. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/mhealth-102809.aspx Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:58:00 GMT Collaborators including Microsoft Research have determined that forearm electrodes could enable new forms of hands-free computer interaction. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/muscleinterface-102809.aspx Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:01:00 GMT Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, authors of the new book Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything, discuss their attempt to capture an entire life digitally—and its ultimate ramifications. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/total-recall_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/total-recall_lg.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/total-recall_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/totalrecall-102609.aspx Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT Tony Hey, in charge of external research for Microsoft, is interested in the impact of digital data across all fields – not just science, but the humanities as well. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/hey-102309.aspx Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT Ethnographers like those supported by Microsoft Research can help companies determine what technologies people need. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/ethnography-102209.aspx Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:57:00 GMT Dan Reed, Microsoft corporate vice president of the eXtreme Computing Group, discusses the potential offered by parallel programming and cloud infrastructures. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/reed-102109.aspx Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cloud computing and parallelism have become a fundamental enabling technology, say Dennis Gannon and Dan Reed of Microsoft Research. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/gannonreed-101909.aspx Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:43:00 GMT Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research looks to augment his memory by gathering the many bits of the days of his life. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/bell-101909.aspx Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:39:00 GMT The Fourth Paradigm, a new book elaborating on renowned computer scientist Jim Gray’s vision of a burgeoning era of scientific exploration defined by data-intensive research and new methods of scholarly communication, was published Oct. 16. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/tony-hey_thumb.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/tony-hey_lg.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/tony-hey_thumb.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT Jeff Dozier, a professor and founding dean of UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, has been awarded Microsoft Research's second annual Jim Gray eScience Award. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/grayaward-101609.aspx Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT Vicon, developer of motion capture products, has signed an intellectual property license agreement with Microsoft allowing Vicon to manufacture and sell devices incorporating Microsoft’s SenseCam technology worldwide. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/vicon-101509.aspx Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT As computing undergoes profound changes, Microsoft's new eXtreme Computing Group stands poised to funnel cutting-edge ideas from Microsoft Research into products developed across the company. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/xcg-101409.aspx Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT Microsoft Research veteran Lili Cheng will head FUSE, a new social computing lab at Microsoft that consolidates three existing efforts. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/fuse-100809.aspx Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:20:00 GMT Mark Braverman has found fulfillment during his stint as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England—and he has a series of accolades to prove it. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/braverman_thumb.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/braverman_lg.jpg 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