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By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Climate scientists, environmental scientists, governmental officials, shipping companies, business owners, farmers—all need access to accurate information about the weather. The challenge certainly isn’t the availability of data about weather. Climate scientists are…
新闻报道 | NewScientist
Total recall: Diary of a lifelogger
It sounds like the ultimate vanity project, but a camera that records your every moment could make you happier and healthier.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research On Nov. 22, in a Parisian ceremony at the Institut de France, Georges Gonthier, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, was awarded the 2011 EADS Foundation Grand Prize in Computer Science. The…
新闻报道 | Scientifc American
Photographic Memory: Wearable Cam Could Help Patients Stave Off Effects of Impaired Recall
Nana technology could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work
Steve Hodges and Andrew Fitzgibbon was awarded the ISMAR 2021 Impact Paper Award for the paper they published 10 years ago. It was the second most highly cited ISMAR paper.
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research By any standard, Kinect for Xbox 360 has proved to be a technological sensation. Kinect, the controller-free interface that enables users to interact with the Xbox 360 with the wave of your hand…
Top Researchers Inspire Interns
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Each summer, Microsoft Research facilities from around the world welcome a fresh crop of interns. Microsoft Research considers the intern program a vital part of its interactions with the academic world, with some facilities…
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Pioneering research into programming biology has earned a Microsoft Research scientist a prestigious TR35 award, presented by Technology Review. Andrew Phillips, a 34-year-old scientist who leads the Biological Computation group at Microsoft…
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center When Microsoft Research hardware engineer Steve Hodges was developing SenseCam—a wearable digital camera that automatically takes pictures that track the wearer’s activities—he needed months to create a workable prototype. “It took me…