Microsoft to Make Computers "Humanistic"....meet Laura, ...

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, says the industry is on the "cusp" of making computing more "humanistic." To demonstrate where this may be going, he shares a video of a prototype robotic receptionist at work at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.

Mundie showed this video during his keynote address at the Technology Review EmTech08 on the MIT campus last month. I interviewed him immediately after his presentation. We have excerpted segments of "Laura" the robotic receptionist. It is pretty cool.

-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

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[brucevdk]

The behavior analysis seems pretty awesome.

[L2GB]

With all data taken from us by google and this technology, we'll see very soon a 'Perfect World' ruling our lives. Maybe you don't share many information about yourself with the Internet but, what about your friends and relatives? Do they protect your personal data same as you?

Another subject to talk about is the mix with other disciplines as psychology. Does Laura know your feeling status just seeing your clothes color? Or maybe infer where do you go judging the style of them.

[klo1777]

when microsoft does it, it is not innovation it is evil monopoly, when google does every idiot on the planet jumps in!

are they a more compassionate corporation? wake up! stupid googlentologists!

[ThinkLearnSolve]

the point wasn't in how she speaks retard, but in the tracking

[qwertisdirty]

oh what a bitch, she did the by by, not just by

[kizkoool]

Microsoft really needs to buy a Text-To-Speech engine of the 21st century.

[VikingJaimes]

Ha ha ha Oh... there is so much to say about this. Ha ha when did audio previews get introduced.