Data platforms and analytics
Video
Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems
I will present work that leverages user behavioral data to build personalized applications, which I call “behavior-powered systems”. Two applications use online user interactions: 1) WebGazer uses interaction data made on any website to continuously…
Project
Data and Visualization Literacy
In this new era of fake news, viral content and social media, data literacy is crucial. Modern citizens in our age of information need to be data literate in order to make informed decisions that may…
Microsoft Research Blog
Partnership yields key breakthroughs in VR’s “grand challenge”
By Noboru Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The potential for virtual reality (VR) to upend industrial design, medicine, and other specialized fields has now vaulted the emerging field into the ranks of…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…
Video
Improving Programmability and Performance for Mobile/Cloud Applications
The proliferation of datacenters, smartphones, personal sensing and tracking devices, and home automation products is fundamentally changing the applications we interact with daily. Modern applications are no longer limited to a single desktop computer but…
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2017
With this workshop, we started a new phase of our engagement. Ten project collaborations kicked off, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft respectively. Project PIs presented their collaboration plans…
Project
C’est la vis: Visualization Literacy at Elementary School
This work advances our understanding of children’s visualization literacy, and aims to improve it with a novel approach for teaching visualization at elementary schools. We contribute an analysis of data graphics and activities employed in…
