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Bing will scan whatever is currently on your screen for information and then display snippets of relevant results.
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Jamie Shotton was just starting his career in computer vision at Microsoft Research Cambridge when some colleagues from the company's Redmond offices came to the U.K. lab with a challenge. They were creating…
Awards | MIT Technology Review
Jamie Shotton was named as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 for young innovators whose inventions and research are deemed most exciting by the editors of Technology Review.
Sigcomm, the annual mecca for networking researchers, is being held in London this week (August 17-21, 2015). The conference program includes something for all tastes: perennial sessions on wide-area and wireless networks, topics du jour like data centers and software…
In the 1999 American film Bicentennial Man, the late Robin Williams played a robot who strives to achieve the physical, social and legal status of a human being. The character’s growing language capabilities—his capacity to communicate fluently with his human…
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Quantum computers are still a distant prospect, but Microsoft researchers say we should strengthen online encryption against them now.
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Research Researchers have for years sought to understand the way opinions are formed and disseminated throughout social settings. Is there such a thing as the wisdom of the crowd? New research presented at this…
While we know that climate change will likely affect every aspect of the food system—from our ability to grow food, to the reliability of food transportation and food safety, to the dynamics of international trade in agricultural goods—we don’t yet…
A novel method of structuring the largest and most complex datasets—from social networks to global financial markets—has won a Best Paper award at the world’s leading academic conference on machine learning. In the paper, A Nearly-Linear Time Framework for Graph-Structured…