Microsoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
| Michel Pahud, Mike Sinclair, and Andrea Bianchi
Editor's Note: Bimanual controllers are frequently used to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual reality experiences such as games and simulations. Researchers have typically relied on mechanical linkages between the controllers to recreate the sensation of holding different objects…
Awards | The Royal Society
Abi Sellen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Abigail Sellen is elected as one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world's leading technology companies, and her seminal…
We are all familiar with terabytes and petabytes. But have you heard about zettabytes (1000 petabytes)[1]? Worldwide data volume is expected to hit 163 zettabytes by 2025, 10 times the data in 2017. Your product will contribute to the surge,…
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they’re taking on the role…
In the past, teaching in the corporate setting, I have seen adult learners bring feelings of defensiveness and insecurity to the classroom that not only detracted from their results, but those of others. As someone who regularly takes on new…
Editor's note, June 4, 2021 - the post has been updated with a more extensive FAQ to provide more details on the changes announced May 4. For over seven years, Microsoft Research has been proud to have one of its…
Awards | Fast Company
From AI-powered mosquito traps to underwater data centers, how Microsoft is innovating for good
Microsoft—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—shows how a giant company can push change across a wide variety of disciplines, from climate to energy to health to education.
Awards | Fast Company
This machine monitors mosquitoes to find—and stop—pandemics before they start
Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.
Conversations with data: Advancing the state of the art in language-driven data exploration
| Alex Polozov, Chris Meek, and Ahmed Awadallah
One key aspiration of AI is to develop natural and effective task-oriented conversational systems. Task-oriented conversational systems use a natural language interface to collaborate with and support people in accomplishing specific goals and activities. They go beyond chitchat conversation. For…