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Microsoft is experimenting with AI in lifts and reception desks at its headquarters.

In October 2013, Microsoft teamed up with Seattle artists to create Gigapixel ArtZoom, an online panorama that shows off Seattle’s stunning vistas and vibrant art scene.

In Microsoft Research’s Mobility and Networking Research Group, senior researcher Ranveer Chandra has been co-leading the Networking Over White Spaces(KNOWS) project, which explores the use of spectral ‘white spaces.’

The Seattle Gigapixel Art Zoom project pushes the boundaries of the Image Composite Editor technology to deliver an image that enables anyone to pan and zoom through the city of Seattle at an amazing level…

Microsoft has created an interactive billion pixel image of its Seattle base – and hidden a few surprises in there.

We’ve seen a lot of impressive gigapixel cityscapes but there’s something a little extra special about this one… Microsoft teamed up with over 100 of Seattle’s creative best to insert them all into this massive…

Microsoft teamed up with over 100 of Seattle’s creative best to insert them all into this massive panoramic of the city’s epic skyline.

Multi-gigapixel panoramas are rad. It’s like peeping at the world through a telescope from the comfort of your own ground-floor living room. But Microsoft has made the concept even more fun with its 20 Gigapixel…

‘The mission of Microsoft Research is to extend the state of the art, and technologists really benefit from seeing the world through artists’ eyes,’ he (Michael Cohen) says. ‘It challenges us to build better tools…

Gigapixel ArtZoom will allow you to swoop and zoom through the streets, parks, and bays of Seattle, on the prowl for a colorful cast of more than 100 eccentric characters who make up the city’s…