Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond
Nouvelles et reportages
Social Search Social Builds Bridges
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Two conferences, same region, consecutive weeks—sounds like a perfect opportunity for a social. That’s certainly what sprang to mind for Meredith Ringel Morris, researcher in the Natural Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond…
Dans l’actualité | ITA 2012
Keynote by Ivan Tashev | Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics [Video]
Keynote by Ivan Tashev from Microsoft Research at ITA 2012 on Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics
Dans l’actualité | NAE
Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
For contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards.
Dans l’actualité | ASweetLife
Information-Rich Eyeballs? Talking to Microsoft’s Desney Tan about the Functional Contact Lens
Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak Parviz and his Bio-Nanotechnology Lab…
Dans l’actualité | WSAS
Inducted as a Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Henrique S. Malvar was inducted as a Section 2: Engineering and Technology member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2012. Field(s) of Expertise: Signal processing, enhancement/compression, decompositions, coding theory
A Fresh Perspective on Internet Security
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center People don’t do enough to protect themselves on the Internet. They don’t use good passwords. They’re poor at recognizing the URL of “phishing” sites. They ignore certificate errors. Yet, to Cormac Herley,…
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW
With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, without…
Two Extremes of Touch Interaction
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Redmond researchers Hrvoje Benko and Scott Saponas have been investigating the use of touch interaction in computing devices since the mid-’00s. Now, two sharply different yet related projects demonstrate novel approaches to…
Eliminating Duplicated Primary Data
By Douglas Gantenbein The amount of data created and stored in the world doubles about every 18 months. Some of that data is distinctive—but by no means all of it. A PowerPoint presentation might start bouncing around a work group,…