Steven Drucker, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, demonstrates SandDance, a Web-based visualization system that exploits 3D hardware acceleration to explore the relationships between hundreds of thousands of items.

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Drew Purves, senior scientist at MSR Cambridge, demos a project featuring a browser app that enables users to visualize data, define a complex model, parameterize it using Bayesian methods, and then share all that in a fully transparent and repeatable form.

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Direct processing of real-time data can provide a crucial edge in the software-and-services industry. This project shows how combining such processing with machine learning can provide a reasoning flow and enable runtime updates of the machine-learning model. Customer scenarios in manufacturing and IT services will benefit.

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Rick Rashid, chief research officer: “Our current technology environment has been defined thus far by a proliferation of data, devices and services. As we look towards the future to anticipate what’s next, we believe that all of these devices and services will evolve to become more like us and work on our behalf — a shift towards more intelligent technology.”

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People can use this 3D avatar project to create avatars of any shape they can imagine — using only their bodies as the input.

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Lucas Bordeaux of MSR Cambridge shows a project providing tools that enable non-expert Excel users to discover and analyze data from the Web quickly and easily.

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ViralSearch, being demonstrated at TechFest 2013, lets users interactively explore the diffusion structure of popular content.

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