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| Microsoft computer scientist Patrick Baudisch (left) demonstrates LucidTouch, a technology that allows people to touch devices from the back, creating the illusion of the device itself being semitransparent, during Microsoft TechFest 2008. Looking on is Alan Alda (middle left), special guest and host of "Scientific American Frontiers", Craig Mundie (middle right), Microsoft chief research and strategy officer, and Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research senior vice president (right). Redmond, Wash, March 4, 2008. |
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| Microsoft computer scientist Patrick Baudisch demonstrates LucidTouch, a see-through touch screen for mobile devices on display at Microsoft TechFest 2008. LucidTouch allows people to interact with screen content by touching the back of the device. This effect of "pseudo-translucency" is created by sensing the hand behind the device and rendering a translucent version onto the screen. Redmond, Wash., March 4, 2008. |
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| Microsoft chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie and Alan Alda, special guest and host of "Scientific American Frontiers", discuss emerging technologies, including new tools that help people to search collaboratively online or across distant galaxies, and to improve the planet. Redmond, Wash., March 4, 2008. |
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| Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research senior vice president, shows a prototype device with a Web-service interface developed by Microsoft researchers that runs an energy-management application that saves energy by actively monitoring the weather and energy variations. This is one of 40 exciting emerging technologies on display at Microsoft TechFest 2008 which brings researchers, customers, academics, dignitaries and employees. Redmond, Wash., March 4, 2008. |
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| This dazzling display is one of the many wonders available in WorldWide Telescope, one of the advanced technologies on display during TechFest 2008. WorldWide Telescope assembles astronomical imagery from the world’s top telescopes into a seamless, immersive environment that promises to transform the way we view the night sky. |
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| Keith Grochow (left) of the University of Washington joins Jared Jackson of Microsoft Research Redmond in showing TechFest visitors the Trident project, designed to provide a workflow workbench for oceanographers. |
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| Xian-Sheng Hua (left), a lead researcher from Microsoft Research Asia, demonstrates Video Collage to a TechFest visitor on March 4. Video Collage uses one automatically synthesized image to summarize the contents of a video. |
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