Cambridge Researcher’s Special Christmas Gift
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In 1825, Michael Faraday, the great British physicist/chemist, had a brilliant idea: Let’s find a way to get children more interested in science. He proceeded to inaugurate the…
Understand User’s Intent from Speech and Text
Understanding what users like to do/need to get is critical in human computer interaction. When natural user interface like speech or natural language is used in human-computer interaction, such as in a spoken dialogue system…
Voice Search: Say What You Want and Get It
In the Voice Search project, we envision a future where you can ask your cellphone for any kind of information and get it. With a small cellphone, there is a heavy tax on traditional keyboard…
Gates: A Graphical Notation for Mixture Models
Personal Telepresence Station
With globalization and workforce mobility, there is a strong need of research and development of advanced infrastructures and tools to bring immersive experience into teleconferencing so people across geographically distributed sites can interact collaboratively. The…