Data-collecting sensors are all the rage in the tech industry right now. Microsoft Research is testing a new use for one of the most common sensors — using the smartphone microphone to record snippets of sound from bars, restaurants and other businesses, to give web searchers a better sense for the level of activity and… Read More…
What makes a tweet go viral online? And what does a viral trend actually look like? Those are a couple of the questions that can be answered by a new Microsoft Research project, called Viral Search. The company’s researchers are showing the project this week at an internal gathering this week in Redmond. The program… Read More…
Microsoft’s experimental social network, Socl, is rolling out a new design and updated tools more closely aligned with what early users have been doing on the site, according to the Microsoft researchers behind the project. The overhauled site, pictured above, is available here. The new design still lets users quickly create vivid posts with images and… Read More…
Microsoft Research today named noted computer scientist Jeannette Wing, the two-time head of Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department, to the position of vice president in charge of Microsoft Research International, overseeing the company’s research labs in India, England and China. It’s a newly created position for Microsoft. Wing will report to Rick Rashid, the company’s chief… Read More…
Motion tracking and gesture controls have become common with the rollout of Microsoft Kinect and other sensor-based devices. But what if the sensors were on your wrist, not across the room? Researchers from Microsoft, Newcastle University’s Culture Lab and Greece’s Foundation for Research & Technology have come up with a way to track the motion of… Read More…
Microsoft plans to add 1,000 staff to its workforce in China over the next year, a move aimed bolstering its foothold in a key market with serious growth potential, Reuters reports. Ralph Haupter, CEO for the software giant’s Greater China division, told reporters in Beijing that the new employees will work in research and development, sales, marketing and… Read More…
Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City, seeding it with a group of former Yahoo researchers who have made their mark in social networks, computational economics and data-intensive machine learning — hot areas of computer science that Microsoft hopes will ultimately help make its products more competitive. Fifteen researchers will be… Read More…
Here’s another interesting project from Microsoft Research, blurring the lines between the physical and digital worlds using a Kinect sensor and a technology more commonly found in nightclubs. They call it Beamatron. It uses the Kinect Fusion technology to create a 3D model of a room, and then projects objects into the real version of… Read More…
The technologies shown at Microsoft Research’s annual “TechFest” science fair aren’t typically ready for public use. But one that emerged last week, dubbed Mayhem, is available for download, it’s an open-source project, and it has some interesting implications for how we use our devices in our lives. Mayhem is a Windows-based application lets people set a… Read More…
Microsoft Research is showing a new project called “Cliplets” that lets users turn video clips into something closer to a moving still image by effectively freezing a portion of the frame and leaving another portion of the video to run as is. The project was unveiled this week as part of Microsoft Research TechFest, an… Read More…
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