SIGGRAPH 2009: Work in Graphic Detail
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research With its New Orleans location and a schedule that includes team competitions, an animation festival, musical performances, and a gallery of interactive art, the 36th annual International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and…
From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth.
SIGIR 2009: Seeking Better Search
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Organizing threaded discussions. Using reasoning to rank answers on community sites. Predicting click-through rates for news queries. Assessing how crawl policies affect the effectiveness of Web search. Taking context into consideration when classifying…
Project Trident: Navigating a Sea of Data
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How deep is the ocean? Geologically, the answer is straightforward: almost seven miles. This we know from a series of surveys, beginning in the 19th century, of the depth of the Mariana Trench,…
When Is a Browser Not a Browser?
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Once upon a time, Web sites were the online equivalent of data sheets. Now users go to the Web to run business apps, do their banking, buy products, socialize, receive a daily news fix,…
Remote Meetings: Thinking Inside the Box
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research George Robertson is taking this meeting seriously. He focuses intently on other participants in the room, making eye contact, noting posture and visual cues, interjecting comments when appropriate. He studies diagrams scrawled onto…
New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Even now, almost a year after joining Microsoft Research New England, Yael Tauman Kalai can hardly believe her good fortune. “Really, really awesome,” enthuses Kalai, 34, about her experience at the lab, based…
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A review of Microsoft Research Songsmith
Songsmith is a very clever piece of software that lets you choose a musical style and sing a song into your PC's microphone, and then creates an instrumental backing to this melody.
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Inside These Lenses, a Digital Dimension
Tan discusses his work combining digital and physical worlds, in which virtual information is layered onto a person's view of the real world.