August 23, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Pioneering research into programming biology has earned a Microsoft Research scientist a prestigious TR35 award, presented by Technology Review. Andrew Phillips, a 34-year-old scientist who leads the Biological Computation group at Microsoft…

August 22, 2011

Collaboration can be a great catalyst for new ideas. Whether working with colleagues from down the hall or a team from another continent, we have found that working together strengthens our ideas. A prime example is the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre…

August 19, 2011

2011年8月19日，北京——今天，在“2011敦煌论坛：文化遗产与数字化国际学术研讨会”上，微软亚洲研究院院长洪小文博士向敦煌研究院捐赠了专门为敦煌莫高窟量身定制的“飞天号”十亿级像素数字相机系统。“飞天号”由硬件和软件组成，是目前世界上唯一的十亿级像素数字相机系统，可以捕捉物体的超高分辨率图像，突破性地解决了敦煌壁画和佛龛数字化拍摄过程中的众多难题，开启了微软亚洲研究院与敦煌研究院文化遗产数字...

August 17, 2011

As the saying goes, “Seeing is believing.” But with computers, that’s only half the story. Cameras are becoming an ever-present part of our world. They are built into cell phones and laptops, and dot the landscape in storefronts and on…

August 10, 2011

It was barely a year ago that European scientific and industry leaders came together with the goal of developing, testing, and deploying a high-quality, interoperable cloud platform for industry and research. The result was VENUS-C, which stands for Virtual multidisciplinary…

August 8, 2011

Robotics technology plays an increasingly important role in search-and-rescue missions. Robots are used to explore areas that are deemed too dangerous or difficult for human teams to access. They can, for example, be used to investigate a hazardous material spill…

August 8, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The human face is a complicated thing—powered by 52 muscles; contoured by the nose, eyebrows, and other features; and capable of an almost infinite range of expressions, from joy to anger to…