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High-tech Armband puts your Fingers in Control
A novel way of interacting with computers and other gadgets could make twiddling your thumbs a productive activity. Microsoft researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle activity. They have called it…
Mashup Developers Get Chance to Romp in Sandbox
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Mashups have become one of the hallmarks of the Web 2.0 era. The practice of combining two sets of related yet disparate data from unrelated sources in one user-friendly, information-intensive collection has become…
Ensuring That Human Values Play a Central Role in Our Digital Future
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research On March 15-16, 2007, a forum entitled HCI 2020: Human Values in a Digital Age, was held in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain, just outside Seville. Its purpose was to gather luminaries in computing,…
Awards | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE ISCE Consumer Electronics Society Engineering Excellence Award
Gary J. Sullivan received the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award in 2008 “In recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of the H.264/AVC video coding standard”. This award had previously been given eight times (to Sim…
Microsoft Researchers at Intersection of Science and Art
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Life, a great man once said, is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. And sometimes, it appears, so is art. Three members of Microsoft Research can attest to that. The three,…
Translating the Web for the Entire World
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research People all over the world use the Internet every day, to purchase goods or services, to search for information, to find diversions. But is the World Wide Web truly worldwide? It’s difficult to…
Go Fishing for Ink with InkSeine
Ken Hinckley always thought that searching for information on his computer was like going on a fishing expedition. Every so often, he’d even catch whatever it was he wanted. Hinckley, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group…
Microsoft Research New England’s Focus: Research Relationships
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research On Feb. 4, Microsoft Research unveiled its latest lab, to be called Microsoft Research New England and to be based in Cambridge, Mass., in the midst of the Boston region’s bustling academic environment.…
领跑下一个十年的创新——洪小文博士荣升微软亚洲研究院新一任院长
10月30日，北京---今天，微软公司宣布任命洪小文博士为微软亚洲研究院新一任院长。下午，微软亚洲研究院在北京举行了主题为“梦想绽放，领跑创新”的活动，洪小文院长携郭百宁、王坚两位副院长亮相，并宣布微软亚洲研究院进入十周年倒计时。活动期间微软亚洲研究院的研究员们还展示了他们在各自领域的多项最新研究成果。 微软亚洲研究院前任院长、微软全球资深副总裁沈向洋博士在致辞时表示，“早在1998年洪小文博士就...