Posted by Rob Knies Yesterday in this space, you learned about the engineering behind Xim, a free app from Microsoft Research that brings fun, interactive photo sharing to users of Windows Phones, Android phones, or iPhones.Developing a new app requires a mixture of skill sets,…
Posted by Rob Knies Editor's note: Xim 1.3, released December 17, 2014, extends photo-sharing to large screens via a host of streaming media devices. How easy is it to share these days? Pretty darned easy, as users of any mobile phone can attest. Take a…
If any city can be called opinionated, it would be New York City, so it’s somehow inevitable that HereHere is making its debut in the Big Apple. It’s Friday in Manhattan, and despite reports of several broken parking meters on its streets, the Upper West…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Socl lets you create, collect and share stuff you love. From rich visual collages to short animated media and memes, express yourself through posts that take seconds to create, collect, and share on Socl, as well as on Facebook, Pinterest,…
How do you spark excitement about computer programming among preteen girls? “Make me a Hunger Games arena.” That’s the challenge Kate Miller presented to a group of middle schoolers during last summer’s Penn Girls in Engineering, Math & Science Camp (GEMS) at the University of…
João Castelo was quick to perceive the exciting new possibilities presented by Socl, the unique social network from Microsoft Research that celebrates the creativity of its users. Committed to the expression of ideas through visually rich posts that are easy to create, collect, comment on,…
Posted by Rob Knies Like many people his age, Andrés Monroy-Hernández of Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is enamored with the possibilities offered by social computing. He just applies them at a more engaged level than most. Consider some of the areas his research addresses: the…
Posted by Rob Knies Many people talk to their plants. But what if those plants were able to talk back?That’s the premise behind Botanicalls, a project to enable communications between plants and people. A sensor network provides the flora the ability to call and text…
Posted by Rob Knies On Nov. 26, 2011, the Mars rover Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral, a trip that will have taken more than eight months before Curiosity lands on the surface of the Red Planet.With excitement peaking in the days before the…
Posted by Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs The latest in a series of posts from the directors of Microsoft Research’s labs worldwide, this one from Lili Cheng of FUSE Labs. We just launched So.cl, our latest research experiment, which blends search and social networking. For…
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The web, search, and social networking are changing the way students collaborate. To bring these elements together, Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is launching a site designed to give students the ability to network with peers, share useful…
