A stream of dancing lights, for all the world like the shimmering curtains of the aurora, blazed across the screen. They took up patterns that were held for a moment only to break apart and…
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Talk about being in the right place at the right time. The newest member of Microsoft Research New England, danah boyd, 31, has been investigating the phenomenon of…
Microsoft Research’s annual innovation fair, TechFest, draws thousands of Microsoft employees to view futuristic projects that grow out of the company’s global investment in basic research. Take a quick journey through some innovations and cool…
EntityCube is a research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence. The Chinese-language version is called Renlifang. The need…
