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Wing Surveys Her New Opportunity
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When Jeannette Wing joined Microsoft Research in January 2013 as a Microsoft vice president and head of Microsoft Research International, in charge of Microsoft Research’s non-U.S. labs, she brought with her a sterling…
Dans l’actualité | New Atlas
Wearable cameras – the future of fitness monitoring?
The SenseCam (commercially available as the Vicon Revue) is worn on a lanyard around the neck and is designed as a therapeutic device, to help people who have memory problems.
Dans l’actualité | BBC News
Interview with Tim Regan, Steve Hodges and Gordon Bell
BBC’s Digital Planet interview with the researchers on logging your life with new technologies.
Theorem Proof Gains Acclaim
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research At 5:46 p.m. on Sept. 20, Georges Gonthier, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, sent a brief email to his colleagues at the Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre in Paris. It read, in full:…
Intuitive UIs Featured During UIST 2012
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research From Oct. 7 to 10 in Cambridge, Mass., Microsoft researchers attending UIST 2012—the 25th Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology—will be sharing projects and ideas with an international gathering…
Coming to Aid of Brain-Tumor Patients
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Fourteen to 15 months—that’s the average prognosis for patients with glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of malignant glioma, according to Dr. Patrick Y. Wen, clinical director of the Center for Neuro-Oncology at the…
Dans l’actualité | ZDNet
Autographer wearable camera will save your life – or track your staff
OMG has announced Autographer, a new life-logging camera that is basically an up-to-date version of the SenseCam invented by Lyndsay Williams at Microsoft Research.
Putting Threats to Wildlife on the Map
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In an era of rising temperatures, shrinking ice caps, and widespread drought, the world’s attention is focused on environmental concerns. It seems like every business, every organization, every government has plans to “go green,”…
Kinect Launches a Surgical Revolution
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Medical imaging today gives surgeons an ability to obtain a virtual peek inside the human body in a way that rivals the campy 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, in which a team of…