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In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft open sources SandDance data visualization too
SandDance is a data visualization tool which Microsoft Research first announced in 2016. SandDance was able to handle multi-dimensional datasets of hundreds of thousands of rows and 30 columns. It showed a large number of related views by changing how…
In the news | Microsoft The AI Blog
Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of…
Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our center.” What is new is…
In the news | Researcher profile
Researcher profile: Amy Karlson
Researcher Amy Karlson details the history of Project Soundscape and her role doing user research.
In the news | Microsoft Partner Network
NVIDIA and Microsoft partner to accelerate AI through graphics processing units (GPU) powered Azure Solutions
NVIDIA, a graphics technology company, needed to unlock the transformative potential of its GPUs using AI. Partnering with Microsoft, NVIDIA’s AI built a software platform that empowers developers to accelerate and build AI solutions, making AI more accessible for all.…
Awards | ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality
Best Paper, ISMAR 2019 and IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics
In the news | Harvard University IQSS
Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft announce a major collaboration to develop an open data differential privacy platform
Microsoft teams with Harvard to build a platform to ensure data is kept private, while enabling researchers from academia, government, nonprofits, and the private sector to gain new and novel insights that can rapidly advance human knowledge.
Inside AR and VR, a technical tour of the reality spectrum with Dr. Eyal Ofek
Dr. Eyal Ofek is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and his work deals mainly with, well, reality. Augmented and virtual reality, to be precise. A serial entrepreneur before he came to MSR, Dr. Ofek knows a lot about the…
HCI, IR and the search for better search with Dr. Susan Dumais
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been worth it. Situated firmly in…