News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Flash Fill Gives Excel a Smart Charge
Flash Fill takes tedious tasks now often performed manually in Excelâor by writing one-off programsâand executes them automatically. And it does so simply, requiring only the typing in an example of what the user wants.
Wearable cameras – the future of fitness monitoring?
The SenseCam (commercially available as the Vicon Revue) is worn on a lanyard around the neck and is designed as a therapeutic device, to help people who have memory problems.
New tech allows computers to sense gestures without camera
Dan Morris demonstrates new ‘Minority Report’ hand-gesture technology designed by Microsoft Research.
SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award 2013
For pioneering contributions to wireless Internet broadband technologies, and for inspirational leadership of the mobile computing community.
Interview with Tim Regan, Steve Hodges and Gordon Bell
BBC’s Digital Planet interview with the researchers on logging your life with new technologies.
Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE Trans. CSVT 2013 Best Paper Award
Gary J. Sullivan received the 2013 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han, and Thomas Wiegand, for their paper “Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard”, published…
Autographer wearable camera will save your life – or track your staff
OMG has announced Autographer, a new life-logging camera that is basically an up-to-date version of the SenseCam invented by Lyndsay Williams at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft turns jazz hands into gesture commands using sound waves
Microsoft Research and the University of Washington develop a new gesture-sensing system that uses sound alone.