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Wing Surveys Her New Opportunity
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When Jeannette Wing joined Microsoft Research in January 2013 as a Microsoft vice president and head of Microsoft Research International, in charge of Microsoft Research’s non-U.S. labs, she brought with her a sterling…
Flash Fill Gives Excel a Smart Charge
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center In December 2009, Sumit Gulwani, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, was flying home from a seminar after presenting his work devising ways to synthesize complex pieces of code. Sitting next…
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Flash Fill Gives Excel a Smart Charge
Flash Fill takes tedious tasks now often performed manually in Excelâor by writing one-off programsâand executes them automatically. And it does so simply, requiring only the typing in an example of what the user wants.
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New tech allows computers to sense gestures without camera
Dan Morris demonstrates new ‘Minority Report’ hand-gesture technology designed by Microsoft Research.
Hekaton Breaks Through
By Janie Chang In an online, on-demand world, the ability to respond quickly to requests for data has become a significant challenge. Take bwin, for example. In order to attract and retain customers, bwin, the world’s largest regulated online gaming company,…
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New Academics Elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s…
In the news | IT World
Microsoft turns jazz hands into gesture commands using sound waves
Microsoft Research and the University of Washington develop a new gesture-sensing system that uses sound alone.
A Better Way to Store Data
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center These days, nearly everyone stores things in the “cloud”—business-critical documents, personal photos, e-mail accounts … everything. Microsoft introduced Windows Azure Storage in 2008. Since then, that cloud offering has gained widespread use,…