http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/ne/news.aspx Read the latest feature stories, news, and press releases about Microsoft Research. © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. en-US Mon, 14 May 2012 18:13:27 GMT 720 Microsoft hopes its SoundWave will let you interact with your PC using hand gestures in mid-air rather than on a keyboard. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/soundwavepodcast-051412.aspx Mon, 14 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT A recent post discussed translation work from Microsoft Research that has been incorporated into Windows Phone. But wait, there’s more! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/moretranslatorapp-051412.aspx Mon, 14 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT Dino Distefano, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, has been named as the winner of the BCS Roger Needham Award sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/needhamaward2012-051012.aspx Thu, 10 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT The Naiad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley focuses on enabling incremental and iterative computation for big-data analysis. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/naiad-051012.aspx Thu, 10 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT It was another amazing year for the annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Here are some of the highlights. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/chi2012-051012.aspx Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT Microsoft researchers have turned a display annoyance into a way to show two different images simultaneously. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/dualview-050812.aspx Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT A new system developed by Microsoft Research enables people in remote locations to share and interact with real and virtual objects. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/miragetable-050812.aspx Tue, 08 May 2012 16:43:00 GMT Researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond and MIT have devised a technique, being presented during the 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, to deliver quick answers to user questions about relatively obscure topics. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/tailanswers-050812.aspx Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT Low-tech phone technology from Microsoft Research enables images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/mclerk-050712.aspx Mon, 07 May 2012 18:50:00 GMT SoundWave, a project from Microsoft Research, lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/soundwave-050712.aspx Mon, 07 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have demonstrated. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/sensemaking-050712.aspx Mon, 07 May 2012 16:33:00 GMT Microsoft researchers participating in CHI 2012 show new ways for sound, light, motion, and ordinary consumer electronics to enhance human interaction with computers. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/chi_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/chi_promo.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/chi_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/chi2012-050712.aspx Mon, 07 May 2012 13:15:00 GMT Microsoft Research has released an interesting application designed to make it slightly easier to learn Mandarin. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/tiptaptones-050512.aspx Sat, 05 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT The New York lab will search for patterns in aggregated user data and suggest new revenue sources for Microsoft's existing products. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/nyclab-050312.aspx Thu, 03 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msrnyc_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msrnyc_feature.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msrnyc_thumb.png http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/msrnyc-050212.aspx Thu, 03 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/imrnyc-050212.aspx Thu, 03 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope will be featured May 3 during Space Day at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/spaceday-050212.aspx Thu, 03 May 2012 00:10:00 GMT To simplify the management and development of smart-home applications, Microsoft Research has developed HomeOS, which, coupled with smartphones and cloud services, makes the "smart home" a reality. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/homeos-042612.aspx Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:53:00 GMT Bing Maps’ Global Ortho Program flies planes and photographers over vast territories. Thanks to research into image deblurring, motion-blurred photos can be corrected for quality without the expense of repeating a flyover. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msr_deblurring_thumb.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msr_deblurring_feature.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/images/msr_deblurring_thumb.jpg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/deblurring-042612.aspx Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT Nisheeth Vishnoi of Microsoft Research India delivered a wonderful talk at Georgia Tech recently on finding a balanced separator in an undirected graph. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/vishnoitalk-042512.aspx Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:00:00 GMT