By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Historically, Microsoft Research has had a big footprint during CHI, the annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction—and this…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Zhengyou Zhang has a vision: to bring people together. He also has a strategy to achieve that vision: by utilizing multimedia technology. His latest tactic to reach the goal is the Personal Telepresence…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Talk about being in the right place at the right time. The newest member of Microsoft Research New England, danah boyd, 31, has been investigating the phenomenon of social network sites since before…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft's new SongSmith software can fill out the harmonies. As software developed by Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith uses artificial intelligence to generate an accompaniment to vocals you sing into your PC's microphone.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When you look in the mirror, do you see Leona Lewis? Do your shower walls reverberate each morning with “Womanizer”? Are you convinced that you just might be the next Taylor Swift? Let’s…
Awards | National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
On January 7, 2009, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for the development of the H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, a project led by Gary J. Sullivan of…
In the news | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Songsmith joins together the two loves of Dan Morris at Microsoft Research: music and computer science.
Awards | Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the mouse
In the news | SIGIR
For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.