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Less discussed however, is a group at Microsoft that isn’t necessarily focused on ship dates, packaging, or competing products. Instead they think about how computers and technology can make life easier, with an eye towards developing new technologies that can improve all our lives and often in cooperation with product team, but also working with people in academia, governments and industry. The name of this group is Microsoft Research.
 
Eric Horvitz, today’s guest, joined Microsoft Research with two colleagues in 1993 to form the Decision Theory and Adaptive Systems group. Since then he has been at the center of a variety of projects focused on machine intelligence and adaptation, and the related tasks of information discovery, collection, and delivery ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Minds-Machines-and-Intelligence-A-Conversation-with-Eric-Horvitz Microsoft is well known for Windows, Office, .NET, Xbox, Zune and a long list of other products and technologies.   Less discussed however, is a group at Microsoft that isn’t necessarily focused on ship dates, packaging, or competing products. Instead they think about how computers and technology can make life easier, with an eye towards developing new technologies that can improve all our lives and often in cooperation with product team, but also working with people in academia, governments and industry. The name of this group is Microsoft Research.   Eric Horvitz, today’s guest, joined Microsoft Research with two colleagues in 1993 to form the Decision Theory and Adaptive Systems group. Since then he has been at the center of a variety of projects focused on machine intelligence and adaptation, and the related tasks of information discovery, collection, and delivery 3594 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Minds-Machines-and-Intelligence-A-Conversation-with-Eric-Horvitz Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:41:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Minds-Machines-and-Intelligence-A-Conversation-with-Eric-Horvitz Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Minds-Machines-and-Intelligence-A-Conversation-with-Eric-Horvitz/RSS Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research Microsoft Personalities MS Research Microsoft Research: A look at tomorrow’s health solutions today: Part I In this special two-part video edition of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Bill Crounse, MD, visits with researchers at Microsoft Research.  Each program reviews three promising areas of research that may one day lead to solutions with a direct or indirect application to health and healthcare.   Viewers will gain insight to advanced ideas and technologies now in the labs at Microsoft Research long before they find their way into future products, solutions, or applications.

 

 

A special thanks to Dr. Eric Horvitz, MSR Area Manager, for his assistance in the production of this program.

 

Part 1

  

Situated Interaction

The Situated Interaction project at Microsoft Research aims to enable a new generation of interactive systems that can reason about their surroundings and embed interaction deeply into the natural flow of everyday tasks, activities, and collaborations. As an initial sample challenge in this space, researchers are currently developing a situated conversational agent that can act as a Microsoft front-desk receptionist (for example, make shuttle reservations, register visitors, and provide campus information). The system integrates a large number of artificial intelligence technologies—such as speech recognition and language understanding, face detection and tracking, intention recognition, engagement, and behavioral modeling—in a conversational framework that allows it to engage in mixed-initiative, natural language interaction with one participant or multiple participants.

 

http://msrweb/adapt/SituatedInteraction

 

•Dan Bohus, Ph.D.

Researcher

 

Gaze Tracking

Eye-tracking technology can be used to understand how people interact with information—for instance, search results and Web pages and perform other information processing tasks.  This information can then be used to design new ways of interacting with computers in which the machine recognizes what people look at and better understands what they pay attention to in order to respond accordingly.

 

http://research.microsoft.com/~cutrell/

 

Cutrell, E., and Z. Guan. 2007. “What are you looking for? An eye-tracking study of information usage in Web search.” In Proceedings of CHI'07, Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA), ACM Press, 407-416.

Guan, Z., and E. Cutrell. 2007. “An eye-tracking study of the effect of target rank on Web search.” In Proceedings of CHI'07, Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA), ACM Press, 417-420.

 

•Ed Cutrell, Ph.D.

Researcher


Big Top

“FourBySix” is a large, 4-foot by 6-foot (standing height) surface computer that Microsoft researchers recently prototyped to explore productivity scenarios and applications involving small groups of users meeting face to face. For example, one use would be to support groups of designers who are combining and reviewing images, allowing them to sketch new designs in a collaborative setting. 

 

•Andy Wilson, Ph.D.

Researcher

  

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/A-visit-with-Microsoft-Research-A-look-at-tomorrows-health-solutions-today In this special two-part video edition of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Bill Crounse, MD, visits with researchers at Microsoft Research.  Each program reviews three promising areas of research that may one day lead to solutions with a direct or indirect application to health and healthcare.   Viewers will gain insight to advanced ideas and technologies now in the labs at Microsoft Research long before they find their way into future products, solutions, or applications.     A special thanks to Dr. Eric Horvitz, MSR Area Manager, for his assistance in the production of this program.   Part 1    Situated Interaction The Situated Interaction project at Microsoft Research aims to enable a new generation of interactive systems that can reason about their surroundings and embed interaction deeply into the natural flow of everyday tasks, activities, and collaborations. As an initial sample challenge in this space, researchers are currently developing a situated conversational agent that can act as a Microsoft front-desk receptionist (for example, make shuttle reservations, register visitors, and provide campus information). The system integrates a large number of artificial intelligence technologies—such as speech recognition and language understanding, face detection and tracking, intention recognition, engagement, and behavioral modeling—in a conversational framework that allows it to engage in mixed-initiative, natural language interaction with one participant or multiple participants.   http://msrweb/adapt/SituatedInteraction   •Dan Bohus, Ph.D. Researcher   Gaze Tracking Eye-tracking technology can be used to understand how people interact with information—for instance, search results and Web pages and perform other information processing tasks.  This information can then be used to design new ways of interacting with computers in which the machine recognizes what people look at and better und 1037 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/A-visit-with-Microsoft-Research-A-look-at-tomorrows-health-solutions-today Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/A-visit-with-Microsoft-Research-A-look-at-tomorrows-health-solutions-today Laura Foy Laura Foy 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/A-visit-with-Microsoft-Research-A-look-at-tomorrows-health-solutions-today/RSS Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research House Calls Bill Crounse