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  1. MSR JavaScript Cryptography Library 

    December 2, 2015

    The Microsoft Research JavaScript Cryptography Library has been developed for use with cloud services in an HTML5 compliant and forward-looking manner. Last published: July 13, 2018

  2. Fast computation of seamless video loops 

    November 13, 2015

    Demonstration code of the project presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: a fast automatic technique for converting a short (5-second) input video to a seamless loop that can play forever without spatial or temporal artifacts. Last published: November 13, 2015.

  3. Microsoft Research WikiQA Code Package 

    October 30, 2015

    We are releasing the code of some models used in our EMNLP-2015 paper, “WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question Answering.” The code includes implementation of two models: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and Logistic regression with CNN and count features (CNN-Cnt). Last published: October 30,…

  4. GraphView 

    October 28, 2015

    GraphView is a DLL library that enables users to use SQL Server or Azure SQL Database to manage graphs. It connects to a SQL database locally or in the cloud, stores graph data in tables and queries graphs through a SQL-extended language. It is not…

  5. Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro 

    October 13, 2015

    Microsoft Hyperlapse is a new technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos. Want to show your friends what you saw on that 12-mile hike you took last weekend or let them experience how it felt to fly down the mountain on…

  6. FourQLib 

    September 10, 2015

    FourQlib is an efficient and portable math library that provides functions for computing essential elliptic curve operations on a new, high-performance curve called "FourQ". This curve targets the 128-bit security level.

  7. FingerPaint Dataset 

    August 28, 2015

    The FingerPaint Dataset contains video-sequences of several individuals performing hand gestures, as captured by a depth camera. The ground truth locations of the fingertips are included as an annotation for each frame of the video. This dataset was developed for the paper "Accurate, Robust, and…

  8. Ironclad 

    August 19, 2015 | Jay Lorch, Srinath Setty, and Chris Hawblitzel

    Ironclad App lets a user securely transmit her data to a remote machine with the guarantee that every instruction executed on that machine adheres to a formal abstract specification of the app’s behavior.

  9. Sent2Vec 

    July 28, 2015

    Sent2vec maps a pair of short text strings (e.g., sentences or query-answer pairs) to a pair of feature vectors in a continuous, low-dimensional space where the semantic similarity between the text strings is computed as the cosine similarity between their vectors in that space. sent2vec…

  10. If-This-Then-That Programs and Descriptions Corpus 

    July 27, 2015

    This download primarily contains a list of URLs with paired natural language descriptions and code, as well as a separate of those URLs into training, development, and test data. In addition, code is included to help the downloader retrieve those URLs and their contents.

  11. Tweet Entity Linking Data v2 Release (NEEL Challenge) 

    July 2, 2015

    Datasets and Python evaluation code used in the paper: S-MART: Novel Tree-based Structured Learning Algorithms Applied to Tweet Entity Linking, ACL 2015. Part of the data is based on the Making Sense of Microposts 2014 Challenge (http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014/challenge/index.html).

  12. HMD Lens for Oculus Rift 

    July 1, 2015

    This zip file contains CAD files and source code necessary to build and use an improved lens for the Oculus Rift HMD. The source code works with the Unity game engine to correct the lens distortion for the Oculus display. The lens was automatically designed…