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IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences

by MicrosoftResearch 265,956 views

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with projected visualizations to enhance traditional gaming experiences. We investigate how projected visualizations in the periphery can negate, include, or augment the existing physical environment and complement the content displayed on the television screen. Peripheral projected illusions can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new physical gaming experiences. Our system is entirely self-calibrating and is designed to work in any room. We present a detailed exploration of the design space of peripheral projected illusions and we demonstrate ways to trigger and drive such illusions from gaming content. We also contribute specific feedback from two groups of target users (10 gamers and 15 game designers); providing insights for enhancing game experiences through peripheral projected illusions.

More: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/

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Video of the Week: Hermann Hauser speaks about the 6th wave of computing

by MicrosoftResearch 1,081 views

Hermann Hauser speaks about the 6th wave of computing at the Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit, April 24, 2013.

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Investigadores latinoamericanos utilizan datos para crear conciencia y proteger a las especies

by MicrosoftResearch 556 views

Las especies en peligro de extinción en Latinoamérica se estudian poco en la actualidad, en comparación con las de Norteamérica y Europa. Los investigadores de Microsoft Research, el Instituto Virtual LACCIR y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile se han asociado para desarrollar mejores herramientas que ofrezcan a científicos ciudadanos e investigadores profesionales un enfoque nuevo en la diagramación de la distribución de la fauna silvestre en peligro de extinción.

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Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species

by MicrosoftResearch 451 views

Currently, endangered species in Latin America are insufficiently studied compared to North America and Europe. Researchers at Microsoft Research, LACCIR Virtual Institute and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile are collaborating to develop better tools that provide a fresh approach for researchers and citizen scientists to map the distribution of endangered wildlife.

Learn more:
http://liveandes.org
http://research.microsoft.com/eee

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Machine Learning Summit Promo

by MicrosoftResearch 482 views

The live broadcast of the Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit will include keynotes from machine learning experts and enlightening discussions with leading scientific and academic researchers about approaches to challenges that are raised by the new era in machine learning. Watch it streamed live from Paris on April 23, 2013, 13:30--17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (09:30--13:00 Eastern Time, 06:30--10:00 Pacific Time) at http://MicrosoftMLS.com

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Profiles on Women in Computing: Alicia Edelman Pelton, Program Manager

by MicrosoftResearch 378 views

Learn about the many great women in computing careers at Microsoft. Meet researchers who are using computer science to solve some of the world's most vexing problems or technologists who are creating the next wave of paradigm-shifting products. Discover what motivates these pioneering women and acquire insights into their current projects.

In this video, you'll meet Alicia Edelman Pelton, program manager at Microsoft Research.

Learn more:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/womenincomputing/

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How Machine Learning and Big Data Are Changing the Face of Biological Sciences

by MicrosoftResearch 1,238 views

Until recently, the wet lab has been a crucial component of every biologist. Today's advances in the production of massive amounts of data and the creation of machine-learning algorithms for processing that data are changing the face of biological science—making it possible to do real science without a wet lab. David Heckerman shares several examples of how this transformation in the area of genomics is changing the pace of scientific breakthroughs.

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Profiles on Women in Computing: Munmun De Choudhury, Post-doctoral Researcher

by MicrosoftResearch 352 views

Learn about the many great women in computing careers at Microsoft. Meet researchers who are using computer science to solve some of the world's most vexing problems or technologists who are creating the next wave of paradigm-shifting products. Discover what motivates these pioneering women and acquire insights into their current projects.

In this video, you'll meet Munmun De Choudhury, post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research specializing in computational social science.

More information: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/womenincomputing/default.aspx

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Bill Buxton at TechFest 2013: Designing for Ubiquitous Computing

by MicrosoftResearch 2,834 views

Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, shares his perspectives on the premise that in this emerging world of ubiquitous computing, it is vital that devices, applications, and services are designed, from the start, by taking the other members of the ecosystem into account. Individually, they must offer great value, experience, and satisfaction, and combined, great design must derive value from all the other devices, applications, and services in the ecosystem, while continually reducing overall complexity.

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BodyAvatar: Creating 3-D Avatars with Your Body

by MicrosoftResearch 7,058 views

BodyAvatar is a natural interface that lets players create imaginary 3-D avatars of any shape, using their bodies as the only input in front of a Kinect camera. The project unleashes the creativity of Kinect players, letting people turn their wildest imagination into reality without requiring knowledge of 3-D modeling tools.

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SandDance

by MicrosoftResearch 2,577 views

SandDance is a web-based visualization system that uses 3-D hardware acceleration to explore the relationships between hundreds of thousands of items. Arbitrary data tables can be loaded, and results can be filtered using facets and displayed using a variety of layouts.

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Microsoft Research TechFest 2013 Keynote by Rick Rashid

by MicrosoftResearch 1,806 views

Rick Rashid, Microsoft Chief Research Officer, opens TechFest 2013 addressing a shift towards more intelligent technology in an era defined by a proliferation of data, devices and services.

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Predictive Decision-Making at the Speed of Thought

by MicrosoftResearch 4,538 views

The Computational Ecology and Environmental Science (CEES) group at Microsoft Research Cambridge has developed the CEES Distribution Modeler, a browser app that enables users to visualize data, define a complex model, parameterize it, make predictions with uncertainty, and share it all transparently and in repeatable form.

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Telling Stories with Data via Freeform Sketching

by MicrosoftResearch 42,344 views

SketchInsight is an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data by using real-time sketching. Creating personalized, expressive data charts becomes quick and easy. The presenter simply sketches an example, and SketchInsight automatically completes the chart by synthesizing from example sketches.

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Adaptive Machine Learning for Real-Time Streaming

by MicrosoftResearch 1,554 views

Direct processing of real-time data can provide a crucial edge in the software-and-services industry. Combining such processing with machine learning can provide a reasoning flow and enable runtime updates of the machine-learning model. Customer scenarios in manufacturing and IT services will benefit.

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ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content

by MicrosoftResearch 26,741 views

What does it mean for online content to "go viral"? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics.

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Teaching Kinect for Windows to Read Your Hands

by MicrosoftResearch 102,684 views

One promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition. A machine-learning project uses a large, varied set of images of people's hands to train Kinect to determine if a hand is open or closed. This enables the development of a handgrip detector, which could launch another step forward in natural user interfaces.

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Making Smooth Topical Connections on Touch Devices

by MicrosoftResearch 624 views

By representing a collection of text, image, or other documents as a grid of keywords of various font sizes indicating the words' weights, the documents' relatedness is revealed. Smooth thematic shifts become evident, connecting distant topics and guiding the user's attention.

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Enabling Real-Time Business-Metadata Extraction

by MicrosoftResearch 4,104 views

Real-time business information, such as current occupancy level and music loudness, can be invaluable to mobile users planning an outing. Crowdsourcing, via real-user check-ins, can gather such information to be displayed in search or to be indexed to provide more detailed real-time business metadata.

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TechFest 2013 Highlights Latest Research Advances

by MicrosoftResearch 2,720 views

See examples from TechFest 2013 of how Microsoft researchers are finding new ways to help transform the way people use computing technology, particularly in the realm of touchscreens and Kinect-aided computer interaction.

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Toward Large-Display Experiences

by MicrosoftResearch 11,468 views

Before long, we all could have large office displays, but how will we interact with them? One way could be to have interaction menus appear next to a pen-holding hand. Another option is to use a mobile phone to navigate through and select the options we want to use.

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Productivity Tools to Discover and Analyze Data

by MicrosoftResearch 2,512 views

This project presents non-expert Excel users a set of machine-learning tools seamlessly integrated into Excel. The technology automatically can infer the values of missing cells, detect outliers, and enable users to analyze data tables more productively.

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Helping Bridge the Gender Gap in Computing Careers

by MicrosoftResearch 1,263 views

By 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States, yet at the current rate of job growth, only 29 percent of future computer scientists will be women. In order to build the most innovative technology solutions and solve the world's toughest problems, we need teams that are diverse. To achieve that, we must not only ensure that Microsoft Research is a great place for women researchers and engineers to work, we must also join with others to help bridge the gender gap in technology careers.

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Transforming the Impossible to the Natural

by MicrosoftResearch 1,176 views

Reading science fictions over the past one hundred years, one sees many seemingly impossible machines and services, which are now not only widely available, but have become accepted as natural. In this talk, Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon will share examples that show how technologies developed in research labs have impacted real life user experiences. For example, body gesture, speech, natural user intent understanding, and other new usage scenarios have all recently impacted how users utilize computing. Looking forward, Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon sees exciting opportunities for research to further extend what is considered natural when using computers. What's natural in computing at the end of the 21st century will be drastically different than what we find common today.

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Towards a Theory of Trust in Networks of Humans and Computers

by MicrosoftResearch 456 views

Jeannette M. Wing's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Abstract:How can I trust the information I read over the Internet? We argue that a general theory of trust in networks of humans and computers must be built on both a theory of behavioral trust and a theory of computational trust. This argument is motivated by increased participation of people in social networking, crowdsourcing, human computation, and socio-economic protocols, e.g., protocols modeled by trust and gift-exchange games, norms-establishing contracts, and scams. User participation in these protocols relies primarily on trust: trust in both the computational elements in the network and the human element. Thus, towards a general theory of trust, to computational trust, we add behavioral trust, a notion from the social and economic sciences. Behavioral trust captures participant preferences (i.e., risk and betrayal aversion) and beliefs in the trustworthiness of other protocol participants. We argue that a general theory of trust should focus on the establishment of new trust relations where none were possible before. This focus would help create new economic opportunities by increasing the pool of usable services, removing cooperation barriers among users, and at the very least, taking advantage of network effects. Hence a new theory of trust would also help focus security research in areas that promote trust-enhancement infrastructures in human and computer networks.

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Computation Challenges for Creating Autonomous Systems

by MicrosoftResearch 288 views

Daniela Rus's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Daniela Rus:Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT | Fellows of AAA and IEEE

Abstract:The current computing challenges for creating mobile autonomous systems that can interact in new ways with the physical world, on the ground, in water, and in the air. Recent progresses in Autonomous Mobile Networks are distributed ad-hoc networks of robots that can sense, actuate, compute and communicate with each other using point-to-point multi-hop communication. The nodes in such networks include static sensors, mobile sensors, robots, animals, and humans. Such systems combine the most advanced concepts in perception, communication and control to create computational systems capable of large-scale interaction with the environment, extending the individual capabilities of each network component to encompass a much wider area, range of data, and control capabilities.

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Divide-and-Conquer and Statistical Inference for Big Data

by MicrosoftResearch 304 views

Michael I. Jordan's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Abstract: Divide-and-conquer is a natural computational paradigm for approaching Big Data problems, particularly given recent developments in distributed and parallel computing, but some interesting challenges arise when applying divide-and-conquer algorithms to statistical inference problems. One interesting issue is that of obtaining confidence intervals in massive datasets. The bootstrap principle suggests resampling data to obtain fluctuations in the values of estimators, and thereby confidence intervals, but this is infeasible with massive data. Subsampling the data yields fluctuations on the wrong scale, which have to be corrected to provide calibrated statistical inferences. The new procedure, the "bag of little bootstraps," circumvents this problem, inheriting the favorable theoretical properties of the bootstrap but also having a much more favorable computational profile. Another issue is the problem of large-scale matrix completion. Here divide-and-conquer is a natural heuristic that works well in practice, but new theoretical problems arise when attempting to characterize the statistical performance of divide-and-conquer algorithms. Here the theoretical support is provided by concentration theorems for random matrices, and a new approach to this problem bases on Stein's method.

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New Directions in Computer Science

by MicrosoftResearch 1,231 views

John Hopcroft's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

John Hopcrft: IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Computer Science Department, Cornell University | 1986 Turing Award Recipient

Abstract:Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. Over the last 40 years the field was concerned with making computers useful. Focus was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still important topics but with the merging of computing and communication, the emergence of social networks, and the large amount of information in digital form, focus is shifting to applications such as the structure of networks and extracting information from large data sets. This talk will give a brief vision of the future and then an introduction to the science base that is forming to support these new directions in computer science.

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The Pipeline from Computing Research to Surprising Inventions

by MicrosoftResearch 217 views

Peter Lee's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Abstract:One of the most exciting aspects of computer science is that the results of basic research so often end up being applied in completely unexpected ways. At Microsoft Research, we actively seek out these surprising outcomes, by building a pipeline that connects long-term, blue-sky research to technological innovations. This talk will delve into the details of three examples, one each in the areas of entertainment, cloud computing, and personal productivity.

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Microsoft Research and the Evolution of Computing

by MicrosoftResearch 459 views

Rick Rashid's Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012.

Abstract: Limits in computing power and our ability to interact with computers have also imposed limits on our understanding of the world around us. Increasingly, those limits are being removed, clearing the way for new advances in almost every kind of human endeavor. Rick Rashid, Microsoft chief research officer and head of Microsoft Research, will present his vision of the future of computing research in light of these breakthroughs and the opportunities that lie ahead.

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BLINK for Windows Phone 8 Tutorial

by MicrosoftResearch 25,585 views

With BLINK for Windows Phone 8, you'll never miss the best shot. BLINK captures a burst of images beginning even before you press the shutter and continuing beyond. No problem if you push the shutter a few moments too early or too late. With BLINK, a simple finger swipe lets you find the perfect shot. You can even return to BLINK to find a second and third shot from a single capture. Advanced image stabilization technology from Microsoft Research removes camera shake and lets you focus on the important parts of the scene.

This tutorial video for BLINK showcases the different usage scenarios of the app.

Get the app for free:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/blink/3e185ac7-2d21-4a74-9cad-3d4729509446

More information: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blink/

BLINK forums: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/BLINK

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Try F# - A New Wave of Education and Research

by MicrosoftResearch 4,939 views

The 2013 release of TryF# is an easy on-ramp into learning, creating and sharing with the power of F# 3.0 that can solve real-world analytical programming and information rich problems. Hear how University College London uses it in their leading computer science department curriculum, particularly in the financial domain. And learn about how Jim Hendler from a data scientist perspective taps into the benefit of Try F# with his undergraduate and graduate students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
http://www.tryfsharp.org

Learn: Easily learn the fundamentals and tap into the power of F# programming.

Create: Start coding within Try F#. This new feature allows you to write F# code directly from your browser and save it to the cloud.

Share: Share the code you create with others via Twitter, Facebook or by simply copying a link of your Try F# script file to share with others.

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Announcing the launch of the new Try F#

by MicrosoftResearch 2,411 views

The new release of Try F# makes F# 3.0 programming easy to learn, simple to use, and share. Through the browser you can easily discover, access F# 3.0's unique information-rich and analytical programming features for Big and Broad Data.

Try the new Try F# today:
http://tryfsharp.org

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Get to know the Microsoft Research New England Lab

by MicrosoftResearch 4,945 views

Deliberately located near a multitude of academic and research institutions, Microsoft Research New England is well positioned to tap into insights commonly found at the boundaries of disciplines.

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IllumiRoom Projects Images Beyond Your TV for an Immersive Gaming Experience

by MicrosoftResearch 4,389,877 views

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected visualizations. The effects in the video are rendered in real time and are captured live -- not special effects added in post processing.

IllumiRoom project was designed by:
Brett Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek and Andy Wilson

More info: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/illumiroom/

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Computing at School - Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

by MicrosoftResearch 2,671 views

Chair of the Computing at School Working Group (CAS) and Microsoft Principal Researcher, Simon Peyton-Jones, talks about CAS and the work they are doing to promote the teaching of computer science in schools.

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Systems Biology: Where Computer Science, Engineering and Biology Meet

by MicrosoftResearch 1,317 views

During the last decade an entirely new approach to studying biology has emerged from the collaboration of traditional biologists with those trained in other fields. New measurement techniques are used to observe thousands of properties of cells, and algorithmic approaches are applied to assemble these data into a coherent picture of how cells function in particular conditions. These methods are beginning to reveal previously unrecognized cellular pathways that could be targeted to treat diseases.

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Battling Tuberculosis Using Microsoft Technology

by MicrosoftResearch 3,315 views

Microsoft Research develops a biometric monitoring system to help patients complete tuberculosis treatment programs.

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Transforming Computer Interaction with Natural User Interfaces

by MicrosoftResearch 10,173 views

Microsoft Research is only scratching the surface when it comes to developing new ways users can naturally interact with computers, or, with the aid of small natural user interface devices, interact with the world around them, whether it's the world of gaming, medicine, or everyday computing.

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Fire App Fights Wildfires with Data

by MicrosoftResearch 1,747 views

Every second counts when combating a wildfire. Time lost can result in devastating loss of life or property. The University of the Aegean in Greece developed the VENUS-C Fire app, featuring Bing Maps, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Azure to determine the daily wildfire risk and fire propagation in the vulnerable island of Lesvos during its dry season. The university team generates a visualization of environmental factors each morning for the island's fire management team, who then use the app to determine optimal resource allocation across the island for the day.
For more information, please visit Cloud Research Engagement:
http://research.microsoft.com/cloudresearch

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FaST-LMM and Windows Azure Put Genetics Research on Faster Track

by MicrosoftResearch 2,191 views

Although researchers are able to collect, store, and analyze tremendous volumes of data, technological and storage limitations can severely impact the speed at which these data can be analyzed. A new algorithm developed by Microsoft Research, FaST-LMM, runs on Windows Azure in the cloud and expedites analysis time—reducing processing periods from years to just days or hours. An early application of FaST-LMM and Windows Azure helps researchers analyze data for the genetic causes of common diseases. For more information, please visit Cloud Research Engagement:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/

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Introducing Project Naiad and Differential Dataflow

by MicrosoftResearch 2,799 views

Naiad, now available for download, is an investigation of data-parallel dataflow computation in the spirit of Dryad and DryadLINQ, but with a focus on incremental computation. Naiad introduces a new computational model, differential dataflow, operating over collections of differences rather than collections of records, and resulting in very efficient implementations of programming patterns that are expensive in existing systems.

Download Naiad from:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/d964c4d2-358e-4109-857e-8a2f1b32ec88/

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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word

by MicrosoftResearch 863,262 views

Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language. The breakthrough is patterned after deep neural networks and significantly reduces errors in spoken as well as written translation.

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Digits Hand Tracker: Freehand 3D Computer Interaction Without Gloves

by MicrosoftResearch 273,359 views

Digits, a wrist-worn gloveless sensor developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K., enables 3-D computer interaction in any environment and is practical beyond computer gaming. Please find the video with more technical details here: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=173838

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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

by MicrosoftResearch 1,110 views

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as potential explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitivenesswith the first important career choice of secondary school students in the Netherlands. At the age of 15, these students have to pick one out of four study profiles, which vary in how prestigiousthey are. While boys and girls have very similar levels of academic ability, boys are substantially more likely than girls to choose more prestigious profiles. We find that 25% of this gender difference can be attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on competitiveness to labor market settings. Joint work with Hessel Oosterbeek and Thomas Buser.

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Pen-and-Touch Interaction for Touch-Screen Displays of All Sizes

by MicrosoftResearch 3,759 views

This video shows a demonstration of our in-place commands that work on direct touch displays. Michel Pahud walks through some in-place command work done at Microsoft Research including pen and touch with toolglass bimanual techniques. In-place commands are menus that appear next to the finger. They can work on small displays like slate, but also on very large displays so the user doesn't have to reach for the menu.

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Predicting and Understanding the 2012 Election

by MicrosoftResearch 899 views

For more than 75 years, elections forecasting has been static—ask a random sample of a representative group of voters who they would vote for if the election were held today, and then report the poll result. In this talk, David Rothschild first demonstrates that the same samples could be addressed with other questions to produce a more accurate standard forecast (such as binary winner or expected vote share). Second, he challenges the standard forecast, stating that what most stakeholders really want and need are more innovative forecasts, like probability of victory or even probability distributions. Third, David shows how both standard and innovative forecasts can be made more efficient with new methods that utilize more cost-effective, non-representative samples and, in time, passively generated social media data. Fourth, he shows how Microsoft is going to be a leader in this new innovation. Finally, David tells you know who is going to win the election!

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Why Research Matters

by MicrosoftResearch 549 views

Renowned scientists explain why research and innovation not only is essential to economic development, but how even the smallest of ideas that improve products can help make someone's life better.

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Jeannette Wing: Microsoft's Industrial Research Lab Support Is Key

by MicrosoftResearch 558 views

Jeannette Wing, Professor of Computer Science and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University, says the most important part of Microsoft Research is its unique, ongoing commitment to computer science research.

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Opportunities for the Future of Computer Research

by MicrosoftResearch 476 views

Making the case that current research has just scratched the surface of what is possible for the future of computing, Andy van Dam, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, indicates that Microsoft's current and future research will come together to make a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

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Predictions, Decisions, and Intelligence in the Open World

by MicrosoftResearch 770 views

In his keynote to the 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research, discusses efforts on machine learning and inference, highlighting key ideas in the context of projects in transportation, health care, and citizen science. Next, he describes the composition of integrative solutions that draw upon a symphony of skills and that operate over extended periods of time.

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Artificial Intelligence Drives Oren Etzioni's Passion

by MicrosoftResearch 1,009 views

Oren Etzioni, Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor at the University of Washington, describes how his background in machine learning ultimately led him to consider how to solve the foundational problems of artificial intelligence, as well as how current research findings can be applied in the short term to improve people's lives.

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KinÊtre: A Novel Way To Bring Computer Animations To Life

by MicrosoftResearch 30,230 views

KinÊtre is a research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge that allows novice users to scan physical objects and bring them to life in seconds by using their own bodies to animate them. This system has a multitude of potential uses for interactive storytelling, physical gaming, or more immersive communications.

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Kodu: Mars Edition

by MicrosoftResearch 2,135 views

In Kodu: Mars Edition, explore, learn, and play new levels. Use new rover with multiple features, and search for new terrain!

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Natural User Interface (NUI): Pervasive Computing Is on Its Way

by MicrosoftResearch 1,579 views

In the 40 years since the introduction of the mouse, computing input has remained much the same: it's you, the mouse, the keyboard, and the screen. But all that is undergoing a sea change, as researchers like Patrick Baudisch of the Hasso Plattner Institute and Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge push the boundaries of natural user interface (NUI).

In this interview during the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012, Patrick and Shahram, along with Microsoft Research's Stewart Tansley, discuss developments in NUI and their thoughts about a future of ubiquitous computer-human interactions.

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Learn How Microsoft is Supporting the Sit With Me Campaign

by MicrosoftResearch 253 views

Microsoft is focused on encouraging and enabling more women to get involved in computer science. As part of that effort, we are excited to partner with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) in its 'Sit With Me' campaign.

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Cross disciplinary borders

by MicrosoftResearch 384 views

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists. Afterwards, participants came together to listen to briefings about the discussions from the chairs of each team.

Sam Madden, Associate Professor of E.E.C.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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How Women Help Influence Technology

by MicrosoftResearch 195 views

Lucy Sanders, CEO of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, briefly explains how Microsoft Research incorporates a key component that helps drive technological design and innovation.

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Microsoft Research - Women in Computer Science: Siân Lindley

by MicrosoftResearch 418 views

Researcher Siân Lindley talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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Microsoft Research - Women in Computer Science: Jasmin Fisher

by MicrosoftResearch 1,181 views

Computational Biologist Jasmin Fisher talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research.

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Shedding Light on Code Clones in Software Development

by MicrosoftResearch 489 views

In this talk, Dongmei Zhang, research manager from Microsoft Research Asia, will discuss the Code Clone analysis techniques that Microsoft Research has created to help developers find similar code. This aids in software development, helping to isolate bugs and working to reduce code "bloat" as more and more code is copied and grouped together. These techniques are scalable and work efficiently and effectively on large-scale code bases.

Learn more at
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/20anniversary/Default.aspx

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The War on Error: Failure, Fun, and the Future

by MicrosoftResearch 520 views

This panel of researchers from Microsoft Research Cambridge discusses the field of software verification, looking back at its history, the latest successes and what challenges the future holds.

Learn more
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/20anniversary/Lectures.aspx

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TILT: Rectify everything you see

by MicrosoftResearch 1,297 views

The world is full of textures, be it faces, buildings, bar codes, or license plates. There are many local similarities and symmetries. Objects seen through a camera can be distorted by the angle or simply through the curvature of the object. In this talk, Yi Ma , principal researcher from Microsoft Research Asia explores how human beings can recognize these items despite these distortions. The fundamental challenge has been working to solve this challenging problem of distortion from a technical standpoint.

Learn more
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/20anniversary/Lectures.aspx

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Crunching Big Data

by MicrosoftResearch 597 views

Distributed Computing has been a key focus for the Silicon Valley lab since its inception, Mihai Budiu, Researcher at Microsoft Silicon Valley talks about the importance of this work, especially when dealing with massive amounts of data that new cloud computing scenarios must handle. Examples of how Microsoft is using Dryad technologies developed in the lab to deliver better customer experiences thru Bing, Kinect and the Hotmail product teams amongst others, provide an insightful perspective on how Microsoft research efforts assist in delivering immersive technologies customers use every day.

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Security Research: a look back and a look ahead

by MicrosoftResearch 377 views

A great deal of research on security has taken place within Microsoft over the years. Often the research spans multiple areas, and quite often multiple labs, in cooperation with product groups and with colleagues in academia. This is actually a plus for the research. Martin Abadi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley provides an introspective look at the scope and of the character of security research, focusing on a few recent examples from the Silicon Valley lab. And he looks to the future and how research plays an essential role in building defenses that must continually evolve to contend with a world where computing and computing systems are always changing—and so are the nature of attacks.

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Microsoft Research - Women in Computer Science: Abigail Sellen

by MicrosoftResearch 484 views

Principal Researcher Abigail Sellen talks about her career and role at Microsoft Research.

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Enjoying the Learning with Research

by MicrosoftResearch 349 views

Anna Karlin, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, speaks about embracing frustration in research as a helpful component to achieving your goal.

On September 27, 2011, six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists.

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Become a Time Traveler with ChronoZoom

by MicrosoftResearch 12,535 views

ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity. By using Big History as the story line, ChronoZoom seeks to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences an enable all this information to be easily understandable and navigable. Try ChronoZoom 2.0 Beta today.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chronozoom/

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Opportunities for the Future of Computer Research

by MicrosoftResearch 904 views

Making the case that current research has just scratched the surface of what is possible for the future of computing, Andy van Dam, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, indicates that Microsoft's current and future research will come together to make a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

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Wikipedia on TV-DVD for Low-Income Communities

by MicrosoftResearch 886 views

While many technologies remain out-of-reach for households in the developing world, one exception to this rule is that of entertainment technologies. Even in poor communities, there is a strong drive to own devices such as TVs and, increasingly, DVD players. Though they are typically used for video content, ordinary DVD players also support rich interactivity and programmability, including the capability to browse over 100,000 menus using the remote control.

In this work, we have stretched the limits of the capabilities of DVD players by mapping a large subset of Wikipedia to a TV-DVD. Our disc contains the entirety of schools-wikipedia.org, encompassing almost 6,000 articles and 250,000 screens on TV. Using the interactive capabilities of DVD players, we have preserved all of the major functionality of Wikipedia, including indexing, search, hyperlinks, and forward/backward navigation. We expect that such DVDs will have a large audience in poor communities that often lack access to rich educational materials.

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Stratus: Energy-efficient mobile communication using cloud support

by MicrosoftResearch 595 views

Stratus enables efficient connectivity to mobile devices by reducing bytes transferred as well as saving energy during cellular data communication. Stratus leverages resources in the cloud to achieve energy savings by modulating incoming and outgoing data traffic to better adapt to the energy characteristics of the cellular interface. The optimizations include message aggregation, asymmetric data compression, and opportunistic packet scheduling based on dynamically varying signal quality.

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Understand Through Teaching

by MicrosoftResearch 644 views

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists. Afterwards, participants came together to listen to briefings about the discussions from the chairs of each team.

Greg Morrisett, Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

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Enabling Concurrent Dual Views on Common LCD Screens

by MicrosoftResearch 26,222 views

Can your laptop show you two different views simultaneously? The answer is yes and here is how. Twisted Nematic (TN) is the most widely used LCD technology today, especially on laptop screens. Some color combinations may become indistinguishable when viewed at a certain angle. Exploiting this, we can hide and show information at different angles without special hardware. Two completely different images can be shown at different viewing angles by spatial multiplexing or by temporal multiplexing. Our method works across various TN-based LCD screens. Similarly, two movies or video games can be played simultaneously for different viewing angles, allowing people to watch different programs or play video games with personalized views.

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LightGuide: Projected Visualizations for Hand Movement Guidance

by MicrosoftResearch 6,504 views

When performing complex gestures that require a specific form or technique, such as an exercise or playing an instrument, we use resources such as visual diagrams or videos to communicate concepts like posture, movement and speed of motion. Without incremental and real-time feedback such as those we receive from an instructor, interpreting and following a set of instructions can be a challenge. LightGuide is a new approach to gesture guidance, where digital hints are projected directly on a user's body. The techniques are focused on guiding a user's hand freely, providing feedback and feed forward queues to help guide users through a range of movements. The queues provide collocated instructions for the movement, along with the body part that is moving on the desired path.

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SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures

by MicrosoftResearch 96,860 views

Gestures are becoming an increasingly popular means of interacting with computers. However, it is still relatively costly to deploy robust gesture-recognition sensors in existing mobile platforms. SoundWave is a real-time sensing technique that leverages a speaker and a microphone to robustly sense in-air gestures and motion around a device. It is capable of detecting a variety of gestures, and can directly control existing applications without requiring a user to wear any special sensors.

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Humantenna: Using the Body as an Antenna for Real-Time Whole-Body Interaction

by MicrosoftResearch 10,045 views

Humantenna senses whole-body gestures without any instrumentation to the environment and only minimal instrumentation to the user. Leveraging the existing electromagnetic noise coming from appliances and power lines, the human body acts as an antenna and receives this noise, which this project uses as its signal. By measuring the voltage over time over one surface of the body, we are able to classify which gesture the user is performing. Humantenna can also identify the location of the user as well as the gestures being performed. This location and user information can be used for a variety of context aware ubiquitous computer applications.

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MirageTable: Freehand Interaction on a Projected Augmented Reality Tabletop

by MicrosoftResearch 125,716 views

In MirageTable, a 3-D stereoscopic projector projects content directly on top of the curved screen. The information is captured by the Kinect camera, which also tracks the user's gaze. This enables presentation of correct perspective use to a single user on top of the dynamic changing geometry of the real world.

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The Future of Privacy in Social Media

by MicrosoftResearch 2,279 views

Today's youth are sharing a tremendous amount of information through social media. They share to connect, but in connecting, they leave large traces of their interactions for unexpected audiences to view. Those who care about privacy are scratching their heads, trying to make sense of why youth share and what it means for the future of privacy. danah will discuss how youth understand privacy in a networked world. She will describe youths' attitudes, practices, and strategies before discussing the implications for companies and the government.

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Embrace Computing

by MicrosoftResearch 1,242 views

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists. Afterwards, participants came together to listen to briefings about the discussions from the chairs of each team.

Tom Daniel, Komen Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Washington

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Machine Learning and Intelligence in Our Midst

by MicrosoftResearch 4,334 views

The creation of intelligent computing systems that perceive, learn, and reason has been a long-standing and visionary goal in computer science. Over the last 20 years, technical and infrastructural developments have come together to create a nurturing environment for developing and fielding applications of machine learning and reasoning--and for harnessing machine intelligence to provide value to businesses and to people in the course of their daily lives. Key advances include jumps in the availability of rich streams of data, precipitous drops in the cost of storing and retrieving large amounts of data, increases in computing power and memory, and jumps in the prowess of methods for performing machine learning and reasoning. The combination of these advances have created an inflection point in our ability to harness data to generate insights and to guide decision-making. This talk will present recent efforts on learning and inference, highlighting key ideas in the context of applications, including advances in transportation and health care, and the development of new types of applications and services. Opportunities for creating systems with new kinds of competencies by weaving together multiple data sources and models will also be discussed.

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ChronoZoom: An Infinite Canvas in Time

by MicrosoftResearch 7,207 views

Embark on a voyage through time, infinitely scalable from the Big Bang to today, exploring this master timeline of the cosmos, Earth, life, and human experience. By unifying a wide variety of data and historical perspectives, ChronoZoom provides a framework for examining historical events, trends, and themes, enabling researchers, educators, and students to synthesize knowledge from different studies of history, specialized timelines, and media resources, courtesy of the cloud. This platform for research and learning helps users develop a broad understanding of how the past has unfolded and discover unexpected relationships and historical convergences that help explain the sweep of Big History—and the relationship between the humanities and the sciences. Become your own time traveler and check out the beta today.

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Beamatron

by MicrosoftResearch 66,112 views

Beamatron is a new, augmented-reality concept that combines a projector and a Kinect camera on a pan-tilt moving head. The moving head is used to place the projected image almost anywhere in a room. Meanwhile, the depth camera enables the correct warping of the displayed image for the shape of the projection surface and for the projected graphics to react in physically appropriate ways. For example, a projected virtual car can be driven on the floor of the room but will bump into obstacles or run over ramps. As another application, we consider the ability to bring notifications and other graphics to the attention of the user by automatically placing the graphics within the user's view.

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High-Fidelity Facial-Animation Capturing

by MicrosoftResearch 6,996 views

High-Fidelity Facial-Animation Capturing presents a new approach for acquiring high-ﬁdelity, 3-D facial performances with realistic dynamic wrinkles and ﬁnely scaled facial details. This approach leverages state-of-the-art motion-capture technology and advanced 3-D scanning technology for facial-performance acquisition.

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New Experiences in Search

by MicrosoftResearch 2,591 views

This project explores ways for people to experience search that are complementary to fast, relevant search in response to queries. In particular, these concepts focus on new ways to spend time, rather than save time on the Web.

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Applied Sciences Group: Mayhem

by MicrosoftResearch 16,815 views

A freely available, open source Windows application that lets almost anyone use their computer to do stuff automatically across all their devices. Just select an event (e.g. your favorite stock hit a trigger value, a change in the weather, say something to your Kinect, etc.) and then select a reaction (e.g. advance a PowerPoint slide, turn on a lamp, start playing a movie, etc.), and within seconds, you have a connection running.

Download and try Mayhem here http://makemayhem.com

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Cliplets: Juxtaposing Still and Dynamic Imagery

by MicrosoftResearch 108,853 views

A still photograph is a limited format for capturing moments that span an interval of time. Video is the traditional method for recording durations of time, but the subjective "moment" that one desires to capture is often lost in the chaos of shaky camerawork, irrelevant background clutter, and noise that dominates most casually recorded video clips. This work provides a creative lens used to focus on important aspects of a moment by performing spatiotemporal compositing and editing on video-clip input. This is an interactive app that uses semi-automated methods to give users the power to create "cliplets"—a type of imagery that sits between stills and video from handheld videos.

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FetchClimate! Building a Geographical Web Service

by MicrosoftResearch 1,759 views

A huge amount of climate data is available, covering the whole of the Earth surface. But even the experts find it ludicrously difficult to get the climate information they need: locate data sets, negotiate permissions, download huge files, make sense of file formats, get to grips with yet another library, filter, interpolate, regrid, etc! Enter FetchClimate, a fast, intelligent climate-data-retrieval service that operates over Windows Azure. FetchClimate can be used through a Silverlight web interface or from inside any .NET program. FetchClimate works at any grid resolution from global to a few kilometers, in a range of years from 1900 to 2010, on days within a year, and for hours within a day. When multiple data sources could answer your query, FetchClimate automatically selects the most appropriate, returning the requested values along with the level of uncertainty and the origin of the data. The entire query can be shared as a single URL, enabling others to retrieve the identical information.

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Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch

by MicrosoftResearch 1,020,001 views

Modern touch devices allow one to interact with virtual objects. However, there is a substantial delay between when a finger moves and the display responds. Microsoft researchers, Albert Ng and Paul Dietz, have built a laboratory test system that allows us to experience the impact of different latencies on the user experience. The results help us to understand how far we still have to go in improving touch performance.

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Wearable Multitouch Projector

by MicrosoftResearch 131,569 views

This project is a depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond a shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or the environment. Foremost, on such surfaces—without calibration—Wearable Multitouch Interaction provides capabilities similar to those of a mouse or a touchscreen: X and Y locations in 2-D interfaces and whether fingers are "clicked" or hovering, enabling a wide variety of interactions. Reliable operation on the hands, for example, requires buttons to be 2.3 centimeters in diameter. Thus, it is now conceivable that anything one can do on today's mobile devices can be done in the palm of a hand.

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Gesture Recognition with Next-Generation Webcam

by MicrosoftResearch 7,740 views

This project presents next-generation webcam hardware and software prototypes. The new prototype webcam has an extremely wider view angle than traditional webcams and can capture stereo movie and high-accuracy depth images simultaneously. Users can chat with stereoscopic video. Accurate depth-image processing can support not only all Kinect scenarios on a PC, but also a gesture-control user interface without a touch screen. Besides computer vision, the webcam includes a hardware accelerator and a new image-sensor design. The cost of the design is similar to that of current webcams, and the webcam potentially could be miniaturized as a mobile camera. The project showcases new user scenarios in playing games with this webcam.

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Applied Sciences Group: Interactive Displays: Telepresence using Wedge Technology

by MicrosoftResearch 3,208 views

Presented at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2012
Telepresence using Wedge Technology: Glassless 3-D display with a correct camera pose and view pose for a live view-dependent 3D Window Telepresence experience.

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Shake 'n' Sense

by MicrosoftResearch 16,862 views

Shake 'n' Sense is a novel yet simple mechanical technique for mitigating the interference when two or more Kinect cameras point at the same part of a physical scene. The technique is particularly useful for Kinect, where the structured light source is not modulated. It requires only mechanical augmentation of the Kinect, without any need to modify the internal electronics, firmware or associated host software.

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Lifebrowser

by MicrosoftResearch 8,142 views

Machine learning is being applied in new ways to understand people and to assist them with daily work and activities. Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012, Lifebrowser leverages machine learning and reasoning to help people to navigate through large personal stores of their own information, appointments, photos, and activities, including their history with searching and browsing on the Web over days, months, and years. The prototype learns about and infers "memory landmarks" -- events and activities that people would find important and memorable. The system builds a timeline around inferred landmarks, and allows users to zoom in on details of the timeline around inferred landmarks with a "volume control." The system also enables users to perform search and retrieval of content in the context of the landmarks.

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Applied Sciences Group: Interactive Displays: Seeing Displays

by MicrosoftResearch 14,079 views

Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012
Seeing Displays: Uses flat lenses (wedge) to see through a semi-transparent OLED for novel above screen gesture and scanning interactions.

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Applied Sciences Group: Interactive Displays: Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions

by MicrosoftResearch 573,771 views

Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012
Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions: Behind-the-screen interaction with a transparent OLED with view-dependent, depth-corrected gaze.

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Microsoft Translator Hub: Translation by Everyone for Everyone

by MicrosoftResearch 5,435 views

Presented at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2012, Microsoft Translator Custom Edition (MTCE) implements a self-service model for building a highly customized automatic translation service between any two languages. MTCE empowers language communities, service providers and corporations to create automatic translation systems, allowing speakers of one language to share and access knowledge with speakers of any other language. By enabling translation to languages that aren't supported by today's mainstream translation engines, this also keeps less widely spoken languages vibrant and in use for future generations. This Azure based service allows users to upload language data for custom training, and then build and deploy custom translation models. These machine translation services are accessible using the Microsoft Translator APIs or a Webpage widget.

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Illumishare

by MicrosoftResearch 220,205 views

Seen at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2012, IllumiShare enables remote people to share any physical or digital object on any surface. It is a low-cost, peripheral device that looks like a desk lamp, and just like a lamp lights up a surface at which it is pointed, IllumiShare shares a surface. To do this, IllumiShare uses a camera-projector pair where the camera captures video of the local workspace and sends it to the remote space and the projector projects video of the remote workspace onto the local space. With IllumiShare, people can sketch together using real ink and paper, remote meeting attendees can interact with conference room whiteboards, and children can have remote play dates in which they play with real toys.

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Holoflector

by MicrosoftResearch 148,747 views

Holoflector is a unique, interactive augmented-reality mirror. Graphics are superimposed correctly on your own reflection to enable a novel augmented-reality experience. Presented at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2012, Holoflector leverages the combined abilities of Kinect and Windows Phone to infer the position of your phone and render graphics that seem to hover above it.

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Data Visualization Reaches New Heights with Layerscape

by MicrosoftResearch 3,416 views

Visualize, explore, and discover new ways to look at data about the Earth—both above and below its surface. Layerscape enables scientists to gain environmental insights into our planet. Users can create and share 3-D virtual tours based on their discoveries and collaborate with the Earth-science community in ways that previously seemed impossible. Build your own virtual tours and experience the possibilities.

For more information: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/layerscape/layerscape_cs.pdf

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Role models and inspiration

by MicrosoftResearch 584 views

Six groups (teams Babbage, Boole, Gödel, Turing, Shannon, and Simon), composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations, reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the context of providing advice to young scientists. Afterwards, participants came together to listen to briefings about the discussions from the chairs of each team.

Ed Lazowska, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/20anniversary/Career-Reflections.aspx

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