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By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Vacation’s over. You’ve had a grand time: intriguing locales, fun events, delicious food, memorable moments. You’re relaxed, your batteries recharged. Life is good. You get home and fire up your laptop to see…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Feng Zhao has a vision. He sees a future in which a Reality Browser enables people from around the world to query the physical world, live and up close, from anywhere. He sees…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Joshua Goodman’s grandfather recently got himself a new computer. He’s a medical writer who had been accustomed to typing his columns and mailing them to his publishers. But the publishers increasingly began to…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Eric Horvitz is sitting at his desk in his Redmond, Wash., office, discussing Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager 2.0 (OMM), a just-released, downloadable add-in for Microsoft Outlook, when something on his computer monitor catches…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research John Krumm, a researcher for Microsoft Research, is one of four co-writers of Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-Scale Wi-Fi Localization, a research paper accepted for presentation during MobiSys 2005, the Third International Conference on…
Senior Microsoft Corp. Researcher Susan Dumais predicts that in 10 years, we will look back on today's search interfaces and recognize them as a simple and limited way to interact with information. After all, she explains, a 5-inch-long rectangle with…
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Hugues Hoppe is a quiet man. He sits quietly, he talks quietly, and his smile, which he uses often, is as calm as Mona Lisa. For such a quiet man, he's made himself heard…
Awards | ACM SIGPLAN
Sumit Gulwani was awarded the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award shortly after starting his career at Microsoft Research and after he completed his PhD at University of California, Berkeley. It is an award presented annually to the author of…