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The company, which brought gesture controls to the living room via its Kinect sensor for Xbox 360, is now thinking about bringing them to the car via smartphones.

Researchers at Microsoft and Rice University have developed a way to make digital camera sensors far more energy-efficient.

Rick Rashid has a lot on his plate. As the chief research officer at Microsoft Research, the division he founded in 1991, Rashid is charged with overseeing some of Microsoft’s most daring and diverse projects.…

Flash Fill takes tedious tasks now often performed manually in Excel—or by writing one-off programs—and executes them automatically. And it does so simply, requiring only the typing in an example of what the user wants.

The SenseCam (commercially available as the Vicon Revue) is worn on a lanyard around the neck and is designed as a therapeutic device, to help people who have memory problems.

Dan Morris demonstrates new ‘Minority Report’ hand-gesture technology designed by Microsoft Research.

Gary J. Sullivan received the 2013 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han, and Thomas Wiegand, for their paper “Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard”, published…

BBC’s Digital Planet interview with the researchers on logging your life with new technologies.

For pioneering contributions to wireless Internet broadband technologies, and for inspirational leadership of the mobile computing community.