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Whole Body Computing
Desney Tan’s research focuses on the melding of man and machine, specifically using the entire human body as an input device.
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The Quest for a Better Keyboard
The award for thinking creatively about keyboard replacement goes to a group of Microsoft researchers that includes Daniel Morris and intern Scott Saponas. It’s one of a number of efforts around the country involving muscle sensing.
Energy-Efficiency Work Reaps Rewards
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research These days, more than ever, it’s important for computing to be energy-efficient. Particularly in data centers, energy requirements represent a significant portion of operational costs, and power and cooling needs help dictate where…
Researchers Ride the Twitter Wave
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research He rocks in the treetops all the day long, Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song. All the little birds on Jaybird Street Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet ……
SIGIR 2009: Seeking Better Search
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Organizing threaded discussions. Using reasoning to rank answers on community sites. Predicting click-through rates for news queries. Assessing how crawl policies affect the effectiveness of Web search. Taking context into consideration when classifying…
When Is a Browser Not a Browser?
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Once upon a time, Web sites were the online equivalent of data sheets. Now users go to the Web to run business apps, do their banking, buy products, socialize, receive a daily news fix,…
Remote Meetings: Thinking Inside the Box
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research George Robertson is taking this meeting seriously. He focuses intently on other participants in the room, making eye contact, noting posture and visual cues, interjecting comments when appropriate. He studies diagrams scrawled onto…
New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Even now, almost a year after joining Microsoft Research New England, Yael Tauman Kalai can hardly believe her good fortune. “Really, really awesome,” enthuses Kalai, 34, about her experience at the lab, based…
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A review of Microsoft Research Songsmith
Songsmith is a very clever piece of software that lets you choose a musical style and sing a song into your PC’s microphone, and then creates an instrumental backing to this melody.