Cryptography Resilient to Physical Attacks
Yael Kalai, researcher at Microsoft Research New England discusses how, with all the progress made in the field of cryptography, security continues to be breached. Complicating matters are hackers, who are becoming increasingly sophisticated, almost…
Changing World of Modern Science
Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research Connections, presents the emergence of a Fourth Paradigm of research. The evolution of research has progressed though experimental science, theoretical science, and computational science to present-day data-intensive…
Old World, NUI World: The Future of Digital Interaction
Shahram Izadi, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Jamie Shotton and Tom Rodden discuss and demonstrate Natural User Interfaces during the 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge, UK.
Mobile Indoor Navigation
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily find a particular store in a crowded shopping mall, or locate an office in an unfamiliar building, using just your cell phone? Feng Zhao, assistant managing director…
Kinect Identity: Player recognition in Xbox
Introducing how Kinect performs player identity recognition in Xbox, what we call “Kinect Identity.” A primary challenge in developing a natural user interface for the Kinect is how to seamlessly recognize a player’s identity to…
Kinect Body Tracking Reaps Renown
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research By any standard, Kinect for Xbox 360 has proved to be a technological sensation. Kinect, the controller-free interface that enables users to interact with the Xbox 360 with…
Advancing the State of the Art: 20th Anniversary and Beyond
At Microsoft Research, we are celebrating over 20 years of turning ideas into products that continuously improve the way people interact with technology. We advance the state of the art in computer science through exploration…