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Dans l’actualité | New Scientist
2010 review: The year in technology (features Skinput)
Imagine simply tapping the back of your hand or forearm to control your smartphone: that’s the kind of capability offered by Skinput, the marvellously named brainwave from Microsoft Research.
Enhancing Multilingual Content in Wikipedia
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Wikipedia has become one of the world’s largest and perhaps most powerful information repositories. But it is heavily English-centric. Making Wikipedia more multilingual inspired a Microsoft Research India team to develop a…
Dans l’actualité | SFGate
Ability to ‘see’ advances artificial intelligence
The Personal Assistant for Scheduling system, a disembodied head floating on a computer screen outside Horvitz’s office in Redmond, Wash., is one of the most advanced artificial intelligence programs in the world.
UIST Showcases Novel Interfaces
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Hallway conversations at UIST 2010 can sound like planning discussions for science-fiction-movie special effects, buzzing with terms such as “wearable computing,” “augmented reality,” and “smart rooms.” UIST, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Symposium…
New Redmond Lab Head Seeks Elegance
By Rob Knies, Senior Editor, Microsoft Research Peter Lee is a bit of a daredevil, having pursued race-car driving in his youth. He’s also a fervent believer in the importance of finding beautiful solutions to computer-science challenges. And, as of…
Software Aids Language Learners
By Gary Alt, Writer, Microsoft Imagine mining the web to learn a language. No, not the jargon of webspeak, where IMHO means “in my humble opinion” or F2F is “face to face,” but real, spoken languages, such as Spanish, Hindi,…
Dans l’actualité | The New York Times
A Strong Password Isnât the Strongest Security
Some computer security experts are advancing the heretical thought that passwords might not need to be ‘strong,’ or changed constantly.
The Quest for Quality Searches
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) holds a conference, it must be difficult for participants to decide which sessions to attend, because creating easy, effective search…
Design Expo Focus: Student Innovation
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Since 2003, Microsoft Research’s Faculty Summit Design Expo program has promoted interdisciplinary collaboration between the design and computer-science academic communities, while fostering closer ties between Microsoft and design schools. Each year, Microsoft Research invites…