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In the news | Phys.org
Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging
A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor’s real name, access their private data and post bogus content on their…
Sho Brings Together 2 Computing Worlds
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Today’s world, says Sumit Basu, increasingly is driven by massive amounts of data. “Take sociology,” says Basu, a researcher with the Knowledge Tools group at Microsoft Research Redmond. “In the past, most…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
Chandra: Top innovator under 35
Ranveer Chandra made the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, his laboratory for the first large-scale network to demonstrate the potential of using white spaces to deliver broadband wireless.
In the news | New Scientist
2010 review: The year in technology (features Skinput)
Imagine simply tapping the back of your hand or forearm to control your smartphone: that’s the kind of capability offered by Skinput, the marvellously named brainwave from Microsoft Research.
Enhancing Multilingual Content in Wikipedia
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Wikipedia has become one of the world’s largest and perhaps most powerful information repositories. But it is heavily English-centric. Making Wikipedia more multilingual inspired a Microsoft Research India team to develop a…
In the news | SFGate
Ability to ‘see’ advances artificial intelligence
The Personal Assistant for Scheduling system, a disembodied head floating on a computer screen outside Horvitz’s office in Redmond, Wash., is one of the most advanced artificial intelligence programs in the world.
UIST Showcases Novel Interfaces
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Hallway conversations at UIST 2010 can sound like planning discussions for science-fiction-movie special effects, buzzing with terms such as “wearable computing,” “augmented reality,” and “smart rooms.” UIST, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Symposium…
New Redmond Lab Head Seeks Elegance
By Rob Knies, Senior Editor, Microsoft Research Peter Lee is a bit of a daredevil, having pursued race-car driving in his youth. He’s also a fervent believer in the importance of finding beautiful solutions to computer-science challenges. And, as of…
Software Aids Language Learners
By Gary Alt, Writer, Microsoft Imagine mining the web to learn a language. No, not the jargon of webspeak, where IMHO means “in my humble opinion” or F2F is “face to face,” but real, spoken languages, such as Spanish, Hindi,…