Jim Gray would be proud
The timing couldn’t have been better. I had come to Bethesda, Maryland, to present Dr. David Lipman, M.D., director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), with the seventh annual Jim Gray eScience Award. David was selected for his…
Rashid on the Value of Research
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Once again, for the second year in a row, Rick Rashid delivered a bravura performance during his opening keynote address of Microsoft Research Asia’s 15th Computing in the 21st Century Conference.Last year, during the…
2013年11月1日,合肥今天,由微软亚洲研究院,中国科学技术大学联合主办的第十五届"二十一世纪的计算"大型国际学术研讨会在合肥举行。来自国内外计算领域的大师受邀与现场2000名师生分享远程浸入式环境,情感计算,智能系统,大数据等领域的最新研究成果和未来趋势,以计算解码未来,用思想跨越边界。 中国科学技术大学校长侯建国表示,"‘二十一世纪的计算’国际学术研讨会是亚太地区计算机科学领域最高水平的学术...
Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 2
Today, we have the second part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—second up, Stewart Tansley: When Microsoft Research shipped the first official Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) beta in June 2011, it…
Virtual Haircuts Go Mobile—in 3-D
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Three months ago, a post appeared in this space about a SIGGRAPH 2013 paper called Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos, written in part by Lvdi Wang of Microsoft Research, along with a few…
3-D Scanning Made Tangible for the Masses
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies In recent months, 3-D printing has leapt into the popular vernacular. Not that long ago, 3-D printers and the items they produce seemed little more than an unusual plaything for organizational use. Such printers…
Kinect Sign Language Translator – part 1
Today, we have the first part of a two-part blog posted by program managers in Beijing and Redmond respectively—first up, Guobin Wu: I consider myself incredibly lucky to be the program manager of the Kinect Sign Language Translator project. There…
SEIF issues 2014 awards RFP
Today, October 29, 2013, the Microsoft Research Connections Computer Science Group—in conjunction with the Research in Software Engineering Group (RiSE), the Sensing and Energy Research Group, and Global Foundation Services—is officially issuing the request for proposals for the Software Engineering…
Luminaries Series Features Jeannette Wing
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Jeannette Wing is corporate vice president of Microsoft Research. As such, she oversees Microsoft Research’s core research laboratories around the world—and Microsoft Research Connections.That much is true, indisputably. But her personal biography goes so much…