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Watch the video embedded above in order to get a truly unique perspective over the evolution of computing from Steven Bathiche, director of Research in Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group.
Toward the end, Bathiche talks about the work Microsoft Research is doing to make the computer invisible. Not literally, of... |
15 November 2011
07:32 GMT |
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HoloDesk is an innovative project from the Sensors and Devices Group, part of the Computer-Mediated Living research area at Microsoft Research.
Steve Clayton, editor at Microsoft, shared the video on October 19, 2011, and some users might already be familiar with this amazing example of exploring of augmented reali... |
11 November 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Next-generation projectors could be used to augment environments with digital content to the point of entire rooms becoming immersive 3D computing spaces.
The evolution of Natural User Interfaces enables users to seamlessly control digital graphics that are projected on every surface, as a new demo for Augmented Pr... |
1 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Project Waterloo is the first game offered by the Research Games team in Microsoft Research, now live on Facebook. Users familiar with “Colonel Blotto" style games already know all there’s to know to play Microsoft Research Project Waterloo.Essentially, players need to challenge an adversary to a game, on... |
26 September 2011
03:52 GMT |
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An operating system built in parallel with Windows 7 and that continues to be available even as Microsoft develops Windows 8 has been downloaded over 300,000 times. Singularity is just one of the non-Windows platforms prototyped by Microsoft Research, with additional examples including Menlo and Barrelfish. Accordin... |
9 August 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft Home of the future, an innovative initiative designed to explore next generation technologies in the household of tomorrow, is moving to the next stage in its evolution, according to the Redmond company. Jonathan Cluts, director of the Strategic Prototyping Team responsible for the Microsoft Home, confirme... |
8 August 2011
10:14 GMT |
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A new Microsoft operating system dubbed HomeOS is currently being dogfooded by early adopters, the software giant reveals. As the official label implies, HomeOS is nothing more than a platform designed for the home, and OS focused on streamlining the management of technology in the household as well as make it eas... |
1 August 2011
02:51 GMT |
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The Revue 3MP camera from Vicon incorporates technology from Microsoft Research designed to help patients suffering from amnesia or neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, recall inaccessible memories. SenseCam, a project developed by Microsoft Research’s Cambridge (UK) laboratory, was introduce... |
18 July 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Users with a passion for astronomy, including kids age 14 or older, now have a chance to contribute to Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope project, by creating tours for the company’s visualization software environment designed to facilitate the exploration of the universe by transforming computers into tele... |
16 July 2011
05:01 GMT |
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A new release of the Barrelfish operating system is now available for download to early adopters. The Barrelfish platform is a prototype developed by ETH Zurich in collaboration with Microsoft Research. It’s important to underline that Barrelfish cannot be considered anything else but an experiment, at least f... |
11 July 2011
12:11 GMT |
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According to the first investigation of its kind, it would appear that most of the world's “missing” plant species that experts have been unable to find until now are concentrated right under our noses, inside the world's renowned biodiversity hotspots. The study unveiled equally good and bad ne... |
5 July 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has created a cozy online nook for F# programmers on MSDN, launching a new forum. Visual F# General is already live and ready to receive feedback and catalyze interaction among those developers that use the programming language. According to the official description of the new forum, it’s designed a... |
1 July 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Scientists at the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Research Computational User Experiences Group have developed a new device that can be used to project a view of damage the bodies of patients suffered onto their skin.Physicians hope that seeing the extent of their inner injuries would motivate patients to continu... |
18 May 2011
04:36 GMT |
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The primitive device in the image on the left is a Hawley Mouse MK II from 1982. It sported a price tag of $415. The Hawley Mouse MK II is just one of the items in an impressive collection of tech devices spanning no less than 35 years, shared with the world courtesy of Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton. There... |
10 May 2011
14:01 GMT |
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The latest version of the Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) comes with a few enhancements designed to make it easier for users to put together panoramic images not only from a collection of photographs, but also from video. Users can already download ICE 1.4.2, which continues to be available free of charge fro... |
7 April 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Natural human – computer interaction models are becoming pervasive thanks mainly to the introduction of new form factors, but the NUIs of today are just a preview of things to come.Speaking of previews, at TechFest 2011 in Redmond this week, Microsoft Research will showcase some projects that have yet to becom... |
9 March 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how a next generation user interface from Microsoft looks like while still in development? Well, this is your chance to get a sneak peek at what the future might have in store for users of the Redmond company’s products.During this year’s TechForum annual event, Craig Mundie, Micro... |
28 February 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Microsoft Research is one step closer to enabling human realistic representations as alter egos for computers, complete with complex details such as facial gestures, in order to make users feel a natural interaction when talking to what essentially is nothing more than a machine. Human – computer interaction... |
25 February 2011
06:47 GMT |
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A new free tool from Microsoft is now available for customers looking to test the throughput of their Windows Azure accounts as part of the process of embracing the company’s Cloud platform. The software giant made available the Azure Throughput Analyzer, a solution developed by Microsoft Research eXtreme Comp... |
31 January 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is spending approximately $9 billion on research and development per year, and some of this money went to exploring a strategy which involves curing diseases by infecting patients with altered parasites. The Redmond company even filed for a patent, titled “Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease,”... |
25 January 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Prototypes are the equivalent of embryos for products in the first stages of the evolution / development. The video embedded at the bottom of this article deliver a unique sneak peek inside the Microsoft Prototyping Lab, where future products take form. This is an excellent chance to get a behind the scene look... |
28 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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With products such as Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Surface Windows 7 and Kinect, Microsoft is at the forefront of the natural user interface wave in computing. The company’s products offer customers next generation interaction models involving pen, multi-touch, voice, gestures, etc. Through Channel 9, the softw... |
20 December 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Microsoft is promising continued investments in innovation in the future, with Bart Eppenauer, Chief Patent Counsel noting that the company has a clear and compelling vision for the future evolution of technology. Undeniably, the software giant has made some very strong steps forward in terms of defining a new human... |
17 December 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Microsoft is ready to offer no less than $30,000 in prizes to researchers and students that help the company build a better spellchecker in relation to its search / decision engine. Bing and Microsoft Research have joined forces and introduced the Speller Challenge, a competition set up to ultimately enhance the qua... |
17 December 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Verve is a new operating system project from Microsoft that can be added to the list already containing platforms such as Singularity and Midori. In fact, Verve is intimately connected to Singularity, but exploring the concept of a Type-Safe Operating System, and in this context it’s also close to Midori which... |
10 December 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Verve is the latest non-Windows operating system for which Microsoft has shared details with the world via the “Safe to the Last Instruction: Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System” whitepaper. Still just a prototype from Microsoft Research, Verve is designed as an operating system and ru... |
9 December 2010
11:13 GMT |
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A new free and open source tool from Microsoft Research is designed to leverage crowdsourcing in order to build multilingual content on Wikipedia. WikiBhasha Beta is currently available for download from the Redmond company, and can be used in order to expand the number of languages in which Wikipedia content is ava... |
18 October 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Microsoft’s exploration of natural user interfaces (NUI) hasn’t by any means stopped with products such as Windows 7 or the Surface tabletop computer. An illustrative example in this regard is Microsoft LightSpace. As you will be able to see in the video embedded at the bottom of this screen, the Redmond... |
5 October 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Work continues on Microsoft’s non-Windows Midori operating system, a Microsoft Research project based on the Singularity platform. The Redmond company is not confirming this officially, but the detail can be inferred from information made public recently by Joe Duffy, a lead architect on an OS incubation projec... |
4 October 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Earlier this year, the Menlo moniker was connected with a new operating system project from Microsoft Research that was apparently exploring the evolution of Windows Compact Edition (CE). It now appears that Menlo is not just a mobile platform, but also a fully-fledged smartphone. Microsoft research is building the n... |
9 August 2010
03:38 GMT |
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Soon enough, users of Windows PCs and mobile computers will be offered access to a new application designed to allow them to measure their machine’s energy usage. Put together by Microsoft Research, a version of Joulemeter can already be downloaded via FTP, allowing early adopters to test the tool. “Joule... |
31 May 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Emporia is a new Microsoft project designed to deliver a new perspective on the Twitter social universe. Developed by FUSE labs and Microsoft Research, Project Emporia comes with the promise of opening up the social world for its users beyond anything that rival products are capable of delivering. The service is curr... |
28 May 2010
09:54 GMT |
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ServiceOS is the latest platform that can be added to the list already containing codenames such as Midori and Singularity, non-Windows operating system research projects explored by Microsoft. According to Alexander Moshchuk and Helen J. Wang from Microsoft Research, ServiceOS was born because of the need to closely... |
27 May 2010
12:12 GMT |
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The more the concept of Natural User Interfaces gets contoured, the more the traditional mouse and keyboard start looking like blunt tools from the stone age of technology. Pinch-the-Sky Dome is a new project from Microsoft Research that brings to the table an entirely new 3D NUI experience. Users shouldn’t thi... |
17 May 2010
10:53 GMT |
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No less than two years have passed since Microsoft introduced a new initiative designed to democratize access to astronomical data. It was on May 12th, 2008, that the WorldWide Telescope was released, and now the project developed by Microsoft Research is entering its second year of life. The two-year anniversary wou... |
13 May 2010
05:49 GMT |
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Menlo is the latest codename to be thrown in the operating system development mix reportedly being built in Redmond, adding a new twist to the cocktail already featuring labels such as Midori and Singularity. There’s little information from Microsoft on Menlo, but the moniker is mentioned on a few of the Redmon... |
4 May 2010
12:26 GMT |
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Microsoft Web N-gram Services was born through the collaboration between Bing and Microsoft Research, as a project focused on data-driven research. Evelyne Viegas, senior research program manager, Microsoft Research, revealed that the Redmond company had worked together with a limited pool of testers for the past yea... |
29 April 2010
11:43 GMT |
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If you thought that mice equipped with the BlueTrack technology from Microsoft delivered the next-generation interaction model based on the mouse concept, then perhaps you need to think again. Fact is that, with the evolution of technology, the mouse will need to be aligned with emerging computing experiences. Micros... |
9 March 2010
09:52 GMT |
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Bing Translator now comes with support for Haitian Creole, also referred to as Creole or Kreyòl, one of the two official languages in Haiti, along with French. Vikram Dendi, senior product manager, Microsoft Translator, notes that Microsoft has worked in order to introduce support for Haitian Creole at the req... |
25 January 2010
08:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has ported a very special game it actually regards as a game-creation tool from Xbox to the PC and made it available for download at no charge. Today, January 12th, 2009, the Redmond company started offering the first public Beta of Kodu, a Microsoft Research project previously codenamed Boku. Unlike tradit... |
12 January 2010
10:50 GMT |
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EntityCube a new project from Microsoft Research is designed to centralize information on web entities, as the Redmond company explained. Specifically, EntityCube, referred to as Renlifang in China, is a highly specialized search engine, that not only allows end users to introduce queries on people, locations and org... |
9 December 2009
07:58 GMT |
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In early 2010 Microsoft will be introducing a new visualization language labeled Vedea. There is already a webpage on Microsoft Research dedicated to the Vedea Visualization Language, but the Redmond company has published nothing more than a few general details about the new language. It will be only in 2010 that the... |
3 December 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to explore the future of social experiences, and in this regard the company introduced a new research lab focused on social computing. The Microsoft Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs will be led by Lili Cheng in her new role as general manager. Cheng was previously the director of the Crea... |
9 October 2009
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available a new release of its application for desktop astronomers, a move which is synonymous with a new stage of the development process for the WorldWide Telescope web client. Users will now be able to notice that the Redmond-based company has scrapped the Technical Preview label that accompanie... |
4 September 2009
12:16 GMT |
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Microsoft announced having released Kodu Game Lab on the Xbox Live Community Games channel on Wednesday. The company is describing the fresh offering as a “new visual programming language” and it’s charging 5 USD for the chance to try and create videogames with it.The publisher is saying that the wa... |
3 July 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to produce not only non-Windows operating systems, with examples such as Singularity and Midori, but also the evolution of the web browser beyond Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft Gazelle is not a plain vanilla browser; in fact, it evolved into an operating system capable of serving as platfo... |
3 July 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft considers this the right time for the browser to evolve as an operating system. This is in fact what Gazelle is about, building a web browser with a multi-principal operating system construction. Essentially, what this means is that an OS architecture is used as the model for constructing the Gazelle browse... |
10 April 2009
03:58 GMT |
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What if code could leave the boundaries of the traditional editors, and call home an infinite two-dimensional surface as a new spatial development environment? Code Canvas makes this possible. A project put together by Kael Rowan, an RSDE in the Human Interactions in Programming group at Microsoft Research, Code Canv... |
27 March 2009
07:54 GMT |
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SenseCam, a project from Microsoft Research’s Cambridge (UK) laboratory, is designed to help recall inaccessible memories for patients suffering from amnesia as well as neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s). According to information in a JNNP study, SenseCam technology is capable of bringing back to li... |
16 March 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Welcome to the future, the Microsoft future, that is, as seen today. The video embedded at the bottom of this article will offer you an insight into how Microsoft sees the world in just a decade from now. The video was featured at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, during the presentation of Stephen Elop, pr... |
2 March 2009
10:04 GMT |
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