Tweet Posted by Rob Knies To hear George Varghese tell it, his research career got off to a rather inauspicious debut.“I wasn’t exactly a shining star when I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,” he says. “I was hardly…
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Dhwani uses the speaker and microphone on phones to securely exchange data, achieving speeds of up to 2.4Kbps.
Sixty students from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa participated in the 2013 PhD Summer School at Microsoft Research Cambridge. The beginning of July is always a special time of year at Microsoft Research Cambridge as we welcome PhD students…
Today, women earn more than half of all undergraduate degrees in U.S. colleges and universities. But according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), female students remain woefully underrepresented in computer science programs, earning only 18 percent…
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The best thing about the Autographer is the software that comes with it, which allows you to store and organise the vast amount of pictures you generate by date and location and create time-lapse movies.
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Had your hair cut lately? Most of us probably can answer that one affirmatively. Use a brush or comb? Well, yeah, of course. Does your hair blow in the wind? Only when it’s windy.Such simplistic…
SIGGRAPH 2013, the 40th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, occurs in Anaheim, California, from July 21 to 25. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the conference is expected to attract 20,000 professionals eager to…
Tweet Posted by Rob Knies With today’s mobile devices, users can find shooting high-definition video as easy as snapping a photograph. That should mean, before long, that preserving and sharing bursts of video might become as commonplace as the current…
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013—the fourteenth edition of this annual event—is now history, but I’m still catching my breath after two days of meeting and sharing ideas with some of the world’s foremost computer scientists. In attendance were more…