EU Innovation Day

At Innovation Day in Brussels, Phil Gosset from Microsoft Research in Cambridge showed me Big Board, which is a project they have developed with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Big Board is an easy way for people to download information for free. How does it work? Basically there is a…

A couple weeks ago at Innovation Day in Brussels I spoke with Rasmus Bodeholt about CrimeSceneNet. CrimeSceneNet is an application developed by Imasoft ApS, a Danish software development company that specializes in software to assist the work of police, prosecutors and crime scene investigators…

Qumar Jamil, Xbox Platform Program Manager, introduced me at Innovation Day to an important feature in Xbox 360 called the Family Settings. The Family Settings allow parents to regulate the games their kids play as well as their Xbox Live interactions. The Xbox team just released an update that…

Don’t like to go to the doctor? Or make shopping lists? I saw two applications at Innovation Day that can help you avoid these things.Ikerlan was there presenting projects that they created in collaboration with the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC). The Health Management Application (HMA)…

Innovation Day wasn’t just a place for well-established researchers and partners to show their technologies. It was also an opportunity for upcoming talent to present their innovative projects. One very interesting project that I saw was Signal. Signal is a sign language teaching environment being…

At Innovation Day in Brussels, I spoke with two very cool guys from MS Research in Redmond, Bryan Ressler and Matt Uyttendaele. They filled me in on HD View and how to create my own HD View images using Windows Live Photo Gallery.HD View is a new technology developed by Microsoft Research's…

Innovation Day in Brussels was a great opportunity for the research groups at Microsoft to demostrate their innovations and the cool technologies that they have been working on.  At the event, I spoke with Shipeng Li, Principal Researcher, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research…

Last week I was in Brussels for the 4th EU Innovation Day where government leaders, academic and industry stakeholders, and the media were given a sneak preview of the technologies of tomorrow. The event showcased many exciting technologies from the consumer perspective from newly developed…