You can catch Microsoft Research's detailed explanation in all its glory at the source.
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Just look at many of the projects in Microsoft Research, starting with natural language understanding.
This system was based on a similar ranking system developed for Xbox Live at Microsoft Research.
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The work is a collaboration between Microsoft Research and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Indeed, Luca Cardelli, who also works for Microsoft Research, likens biological cells to computers.
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Bill Buxton believes the mouse is just too valuable to dispense with.
Stephen Emmott, who works for Microsoft Research, wonders whether to turn the whole approach on its head.
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Microsoft Research Asia, known as MSRA, was established in Beijing 10 years ago.
Update: It's actually a Microsoft Research project that uses a Kinect for a Windows camera combined with a projector.
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The Microsoft research center in Beijing is one of the most sought-after places there, and the competition is fierce.
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By contrast, Microsoft Kinect reads a player's body movements without the aid of remotes, using a technology developed by Microsoft Research.
Shortly thereafter, he took a post as a scholar-at-large for Microsoft Research, where he has gone back to developing tools for virtual reality.
Kinect is impressive - and when I visited the Microsoft research centre last year it seemed to have inspired dozens of side projects.
The recent request for proposals by Microsoft Research to address challenges at the intersection of human trafficking and technology offers a promising example.
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Since 2006, he has worked as a consultant at Microsoft Research.
Her research, which shows how M-Pesa is affecting family relationships and other aspects of daily life, was funded by a joint scholarship from the university and Microsoft Research.
The Printing Dress is a Microsoft Research creation that is essentially a screen that allows you to text your thoughts onto the dress for everyone to read.
Boyd's job at Microsoft Research is similar to an academic's.
Recent research from Microsoft Research UK into how computing is taught at high schools around the world, explained that teaching computer science had significant educational and economic benefits.
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"As computers grow more capable of handling massive amounts of data, they also need to become more intuitive to use, " Kevin Kutz, spokesman for Microsoft Research, told the BBC.
Augmented cognition promises to be a different story, insists Eric Horvitz, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
"We have never seen a social space that actually works for everybody, " says danah boyd, who studies youth culture, the Internet and social media as a senior researcher at Microsoft Research.
"I'm amazed how far some of these have gone toward the high 90s, " said David Rothschild, an economist for Microsoft Research, about predictions for several Oscar winners with probabilities above 90%.
"Phone calls are not the way young people express themselves, " said Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and an assistant professor of media, culture and communication at New York University.
"Sometimes I feel like my job is Captain Obvious, " says danah boyd, sitting cross-legged and shoeless in a neon-green chair at Microsoft Research's office overlooking a frozen Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.
Ya know, Microsoft Research is like the uber cool kids at Microsoft that are always doing things but all the people we know at Microsoft rarely have any idea what they're up to.
It is the first deployment of solar-powered base stations working together with TV white spaces, a technology partially developed by Microsoft Research, to deliver high-speed Internet access to areas currently lacking even basic electricity.
Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.
"Alerts about a downstream risk of cholera could have been issued nearly a year in advance, " wrote researchers Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, and Kira Radinsky, PhD student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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