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In 2006, the International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), the United Nations Organization for standardization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), conducted a poll in commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of the ITU-T and its predecessor the CCITT.…
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Over the years, Microsoft Research has attracted experienced researchers at the top of their fields, as well as fresh new talent that achieves significant results right out of the gate. And the research community has rewarded many of them with…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Over the course of 15 years, Microsoft Research has gone from being a twinkle in the eyes of Bill Gates and his former chief technology officer, Nathan Myhrvold, to a model of industrial-research…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Kids of all ages love cartoons. They appeal because of their vivid colors, their fluid motion, their whimsical world view, their idealized parallel universe. In a cartoon, a coyote that falls off a…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s a familiar cliché: The best offense is a good defense. You hear it all the time in a sporting context. But, as it turns out, that hoary truism applies to Web surfing,…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Have you seen the one about …? From time immemorial, mankind has maximized its ability to share information orally. Whether it is passing along a recounting of a movie, recapping last night’s sporting…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research You’re in pre-movie limbo. It’s 6 p.m., and the film you want to see starts at 7. You’ve got enough time to grab a quick dinner—if you don’t have to wait for a…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. The subtext of that hoary proverb, of course, is that sometimes the beholder’s eye doesn’t see things quite the same way that the…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It was just past dusk when we ventured into the heart of the Nakalabande slum in the Jayanagar area of south-central Bangalore. We were seven in number—Kentaro, Udai, Vidya, Indrani, and me, accompanied…