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Virtual Haircuts Go Mobile—in 3-D

October 30, 2013
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Three months ago, a post appeared in this space about a SIGGRAPH 2013 paper called Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos, written in part by Lvdi Wang of Microsoft Research, along with a few academic collaborators. It was fun, fascinating…
  1. Virtual Haircuts Go Mobile—in 3-D 

    October 30, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Three months ago, a post appeared in this space about a SIGGRAPH 2013 paper called Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos, written in part by Lvdi Wang of Microsoft Research, along with a few academic collaborators. It was fun, fascinating…

  2. 3-D Scanning Made Tangible for the Masses 

    October 30, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   In recent months, 3-D printing has leapt into the popular vernacular. Not that long ago, 3-D printers and the items they produce seemed little more than an unusual plaything for organizational use. Such printers were expensive, difficult to understand,…

  3. Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 1 

    October 29, 2013

    Today, we have the first part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—first up, Guobin Wu: I consider myself incredibly lucky to be the program manager of the Kinect Sign Language Translator project. There are more than 20 million…

  4. SEIF issues 2014 awards RFP 

    October 29, 2013

    Today, October 29, 2013, the Microsoft Research Connections Computer Science Group—in conjunction with the Research in Software Engineering Group (RiSE), the Sensing and Energy Research Group, and Global Foundation Services—is officially issuing the request for proposals for the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) 2014 awards.…

  5. Luminaries Series Features Jeannette Wing 

    October 29, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Jeannette Wing is corporate vice president of Microsoft Research. As such, she oversees Microsoft Research’s core research laboratories around the world—and Microsoft Research Connections.That much is true, indisputably. But her personal biography goes so much deeper than that. The above…

  6. Cardelli Named Royal Society Research Professor 

    October 28, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   On Oct. 29, the Royal Society announced that Microsoft Research’s Luca Cardelli has received a Royal Society Research Professorship. This prestigious post provides long-term support for internationally recognized scientists of outstanding achievement and promise, and previous holders of the…

  7. Bringing TouchDevelop to the Cloud 

    October 28, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies   In this new, cloud-enabled era, users of various devices want—nay, expect—their apps and data to be available everywhere and all the time. The future is here, right, so why not?The devil, though, as always, is in the details. And…

  8. Students develop analytics engine for the Lab of Things 

    October 24, 2013

    The Lab of Things (LoT) may sound like something you’d find in a sci-fi movie, but it is a lot more practical than that: it’s a research platform that makes it easy to deploy interconnected devices in multiple homes, then share your individual research data…

  9. Bringing the heavens into the schoolhouse 

    October 23, 2013

    In the five years since Microsoft Research initially launched the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), the product’s many features have been put to a variety of uses. Today in Chongqing, China, we saw yet another first for WorldWide Telescope: the unveiling of the first WWT-driven planetarium in…

  10. eScience and Cloud Computing in Beijing 

    October 22, 2013

    I'm in Beijing for the tenth annual Microsoft eScience Workshop, which runs from October 22 to 25. As in the past, the workshop takes place at the same time and in the same location as the IEEE International Conference on eScience. No coincidence, of course—why not…

  11. Audio Advances Help Xbox One Determine Signal from Noise 

    October 16, 2013

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies You might remember Ivan Tashev as the researcher behind the audio technology that helped to make Kinect for Xbox 360 such a marketplace sensation a couple of years ago. Now, with Xbox One headed for a Nov. 22 debut, Tashev,…

  12. Windows Azure for Research at UNICAMP 

    October 15, 2013

    In today’s world of data-intensive scientific research, cloud computing offers immense value. Here in Brazil, for example, researchers are working on a variety of environmental and urban studies projects that demand a highly scalable and flexible resource infrastructure—exactly what cloud computing on Windows Azure offers.…

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