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CHI ’11: Enhancing the Human Condition
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research The Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), being held May 7-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, provides a showcase of the latest advances in human-computer interaction (HCI). “The…
Dans l’actualité | The Register
OpenID warns of ‘psychic paper’ authentication attack
The flaw is noteworthy because many high-profile sites â including Google, Yahoo! and Flickr â use the technology so that once users have logged into one site, they aren’t constantly prompted for passwords.
Kinect Audio: Preparedness Pays Off
By Rob Knies, Senior Editor, Microsoft Research It always helps to be prepared. Just ask Ivan Tashev. A principal software architect in the Speech group at Microsoft Research Redmond, Tashev played an integral role in developing the audio technology that…
Dans l’actualité | Channel 9 Live at MIX11
MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev [Video]
This MSR NUI Panel with Curtis Wong & Ivan Tashev was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at MIX11 on April 13th 2011.
Maximum Overhang, Optimum Reward
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Yuval Peres, principal researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond and manager of the Theory Group, always advocates both healthy skepticism and an open mind when it comes to problem solving. Even so, Peres was pleasantly…
Faster Servers, Services with FlashStore
By Doug Gantenbein Memory has its faults—and not only the human variety. Hard drives, for instance, can hold terabytes cheaply. But they’re slow. Random-access memory (RAM) is fast but expensive, and data in RAM disappear the instant the power goes…
Dans l’actualité | Phys.org
Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging
A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor’s real name, access their private data and post bogus content on their…
Sho Brings Together 2 Computing Worlds
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Today’s world, says Sumit Basu, increasingly is driven by massive amounts of data. “Take sociology,” says Basu, a researcher with the Knowledge Tools group at Microsoft Research Redmond. “In the past, most…
Dans l’actualité | MIT Technology Review
Chandra: Top innovator under 35
Ranveer Chandra made the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, his laboratory for the first large-scale network to demonstrate the potential of using white spaces to deliver broadband wireless.