Research

mPlatform is a Microsoft Research project led by Feng Zhao, a principal researcher in the Networked Embedded Computing group within Microsoft Research Redmond. In 2006, he co-authored a paper along with Bodhi Priyantha, a researcher in Zhao’s group on something called mPlatform, which is basically…

HD View is a technology developed by Microsoft Research specifically for the purpose of viewing and interacting with large scale images on the web. As the HD Team describes it, it’s a “camera for the web.” But really what it does is allow you to interact with large, panoramic images that don’t fit…

About a week after we aired our first twopieces about Office RoundTable, the phone rang here at the 10 HQ. Our new best friend Rajiv Kapoor from the Microsoft Unified Communications group called out of the clear blue to say he'd love to show off the finished RoundTable alongside LiveMeeting 2007.…

One of the benefits of working on a small team is the low frequency of conference calls. Being on a 'call' as they're not-so-affectionately known typically means speaking once every fifteen minutes while sifting through email or catching up on that hilarious web comic.The Office RoundTable…

When you think of natural disaster, software programs rarely come to mind. But Ted Okada and Robert Kirkpatrick of Microsoft’s Humanitarian Systems know from experience that where there's a crisis, software can be a life-saver. On the front lines of war, earthquakes and floods Ted and Robert…

At the 9th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft's External Research Division, revealed some new tools for improving the process of doing research. The tools consist of a set of free software programs that let researchers and scholars seamlessly…

Picking up where yesterday's conversation left off, we have more Office RoundTable goodness. Ross fires up one of the prototype cameras and gives us more detail on how the massive camera resolution, combined with the RoundTable's intelligent software, take the remote conference experience to the…

We all need our personal space, and now MS Research is working on a way to give us our personal AUDIO space. I chatted with Jasha Droppo at TechFest '07 and he gave me the lowdown on how this speaker of the future works including the creation of constructive and destructive interference and high-end…

Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Surface computer comes the Cambridge kids from Microsoft Research with their latest creation. Steve Hodges’ Dell laptop now sports multi-touch input, courtesy of a small collection of infrared sensors attached to the rear of the display. The video in Long Zheng’s…

In what has quickly become as hotly contested an issue as abortion, stem cell research is an area where it never hurts to go over the facts. Dr. Chuck Murry from UW Medicine handed out the latex gloves and layed out the stem cell crash course.We here at 10 are always looking for ways to enhance…