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Beijing Lab’s New Initiative: eHeritage
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Leonardo da Vinci and Filippo Brunelleschi resound through history as two of the guiding lights of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo, of course, gifted us with the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but…
CHI ’09: Computing with a Human Touch
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Historically, Microsoft Research has had a big footprint during CHI, the annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction—and this…
Making Virtual Meetings Feel Real
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Zhengyou Zhang has a vision: to bring people together. He also has a strategy to achieve that vision: by utilizing multimedia technology. His latest tactic to reach the goal is the Personal Telepresence…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Songsmith Backs Up Your Vocals
Microsoft’s new SongSmith software can fill out the harmonies. As software developed by Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith uses artificial intelligence to generate an accompaniment to vocals you sing into your PC’s microphone.
Songsmith: Music Creation for the Masses
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When you look in the mirror, do you see Leona Lewis? Do your shower walls reverberate each morning with “Womanizer”? Are you convinced that you just might be the next Taylor Swift? Let’s…
In the news | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Microsoft’s Songsmith makes music using PC
Songsmith joins together the two loves of Dan Morris at Microsoft Research: music and computer science.
Awards | Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the mouse
Best Paper, UIST 2009
In the news | ACM
Elected ACM Fellow, 2008
For contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.
In the news | SIGCHI
SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
Buxton’s influence has been enormous. His contributions to the field of human-computer interaction start with music: coupling sound, music, and computers through tools, instruments, and even score editors.