Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Flash Fill takes tedious tasks now often performed manually in Excelâor by writing one-off programsâand executes them automatically. And it does so simply, requiring only the typing in an example of what the user wants.
The SenseCam (commercially available as the Vicon Revue) is worn on a lanyard around the neck and is designed as a therapeutic device, to help people who have memory problems.
Dan Morris demonstrates new ‘Minority Report’ hand-gesture technology designed by Microsoft Research.
For pioneering contributions to wireless Internet broadband technologies, and for inspirational leadership of the mobile computing community.
BBC’s Digital Planet interview with the researchers on logging your life with new technologies.
Gary J. Sullivan received the 2013 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han, and Thomas Wiegand, for their paper “Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard”, published…
OMG has announced Autographer, a new life-logging camera that is basically an up-to-date version of the SenseCam invented by Lyndsay Williams at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Research and the University of Washington develop a new gesture-sensing system that uses sound alone.
Alice and Bob, fondly known as the first couple of cryptography, are really more interested in computational suitcases than physical ones. Suppose Alice gives Bob a securely encrypted computer file and asks him to sum…
