By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How deep is the ocean? Geologically, the answer is straightforward: almost seven miles. This we know from a series of surveys, beginning in the 19th century, of the depth of the Mariana Trench,…
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Once upon a time, Web sites were the online equivalent of data sheets. Now users go to the Web to run business apps, do their banking, buy products, socialize, receive a daily news fix,…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research George Robertson is taking this meeting seriously. He focuses intently on other participants in the room, making eye contact, noting posture and visual cues, interjecting comments when appropriate. He studies diagrams scrawled onto…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Even now, almost a year after joining Microsoft Research New England, Yael Tauman Kalai can hardly believe her good fortune. “Really, really awesome,” enthuses Kalai, 34, about her experience at the lab, based…
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Songsmith is a very clever piece of software that lets you choose a musical style and sing a song into your PC's microphone, and then creates an instrumental backing to this melody.
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Tan discusses his work combining digital and physical worlds, in which virtual information is layered onto a person's view of the real world.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Leonardo da Vinci and Filippo Brunelleschi resound through history as two of the guiding lights of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo, of course, gifted us with the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but…
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Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need to become knowledgeable and vigorous participants in healthcare reform.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Bill Buxton is a man of many interests: composer, musician, outdoorsman. Most of all, though, he is a relentless advocate for innovative product design. “Ultimately,” he says, “we are deluding ourselves if we…