Putting Search into Context
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research The breathtaking ascendance of Internet search over the past decade has tended to obscure the limitations of the underlying technology. So quickly has search been embraced by hundreds of millions worldwide that it…
Web Search—With a Little Help from Your Friends
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Who knows you better than anybody? Your friends and family, of course. Who is best-positioned to understand your wants and needs? Your closest acquaintances, naturally. Doesn’t it make sense, therefore, to take the…
Text-Search Tricks Speak Volumes in Image Search
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s fair to assume that anyone who knows anything about the Web—anyone reading these words—is comfortably familiar with text search. It has become perhaps the pre-eminent way to extract information from the Internet,…
Microsoft Research Unveils Technologies to Improve the Web Experience
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Battling search spam. Streamlining Web-page monitoring. Helping protect online privacy. Enabling the illiterate to use computers. These are just a few of the ways Microsoft Research is demonstrating its commitment to making the…
How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depended on changing political and commercial alignments that profoundly shaped the future of cultural expression in a digital age.
CHI 2007: A Matter of Perspiration and Inspiration
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research The research and academic community is rife with conferences. Just about any subject or discipline you can name has its own annual gathering, where the learned and the innovative come together to discuss…
Personal Audio Space: The Headphones Experience sans Headphones
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Many people are accustomed to donning headphones to enjoy music at a desired volume without inflicting their tunes on others nearby. But there are tradeoffs inherent in the headphones experience. For one, you’re…
比尔•盖茨接受清华名誉博士学位 微软与中国名校合作升级
2007年4月19日，北京—今天，微软公司董事长比尔·盖茨先生访问了清华大学，并参加了一系列学术活动。作为比尔·盖茨此次中国之行的第一站，他在清华园与姚期智等享誉世界的华裔科学家，以及数百名清华大学学子进行了面对面的交流，并接受了清华大学的名誉博士学位。 比尔·盖茨曾在1997年访问过清华大学，对于此次访问他表示，“上次的清华之行给我留下了非常深刻的印象。中国学生对技术、对研究的激情成为我在北京开...
General Manager’s Mantra Drives Incubation Success
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Xuedong Huang has a mantra: Act fast, ponder less, and learn. Those precepts are not common in research circles, where careful deliberation is generally a necessary precondition to productive work, but there’s little…