In conjunction with the first anniversary of Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft Research Connections continues to help spread the word about the Kinect for Windows software-development kit... more »

Ken Hinckley and co-authors from Microsoft Research Redmond have won the Lasting Impact Award from the 24th annual Symposium on User Interface and Technology, for the paper published at least 10 years ago that has been judged as deeply influential... more »

As Kinect for Xbox 360 marks its first anniversary of commercial availability, we take a moment to review a series of articles about the research that helped pave the way for the product’s success... more »

Chinese university students participating in the Kinect Pioneer Program have created remarkable projects using the Kinect for Windows software-development kit... more »

Microsoft Korea, LG Electronics, NHN offer opportunities for training overseas, internships, and more... more »

We present Code Space, a system that contributes touch + air gesture hybrid interactions to support co-located, small group developer meetings by democratizing access, control, and sharing of information across multiple personal devices and public displays. Our system uses a combination of a shared multi-touch screen, mobile touch devices, and .. more »

Practical Containment for Measuring Modern Malware Systems.. more »

Modeling continuous social strength rather than conventional binary social ties in the social network can lead to a more precise and informative description of social relationship among people. In this paper, we study the problem of social strength modeling (SSM) for the users in a social media community, who are typically associated with diverse .. more »

University students had a field day with the Touch Mouse during the Student Innovation Contest, part of the annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology... more »

Automata is a .NET tool kit that provides facilities for manipulating and analyzing regular expressions, symbolic finite automata, and symbolic finite transducers. It supports automata and transducers where input and output alphabets can be fully symbolic. Constraints over the alphabets can be analyzed using Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) .. more »

Microsoft Research Cambridge's work on augmented projectors includes a prototype that can sense the characteristics of a room to let people interact with virtual objects in the space... more »

The Web API conflates two conflicting goals: serving developers by supporting a wide and growing suite of functionality, and providing applications with an isolated execution environment. We propose to split the API into two levels of interface: a low-level interface that governs the relationship between the application and the browser, and a set .. more »

Back-transliteration based Input Method Editors are very popular for Indian Lan-guages. In this paper we evaluate two such Indic language systems to help un-derstand the challenge of designing a back-transliteration based IME. Through a detailed error-analysis of Hindi, Bang-la and Telugu data, we study the role of phonological features of Indian .. more »

This paper presents a safeness condition that is more liberal than the one commonly imposed on Datalog, based on classifying predicate arguments into input and output arguments, thereby extending the expressiveness of Datalog-based policy languages. It is also shown that the relaxed safeness condition is a powerful tool for adding important .. more »

Microsoft Research has proposed a mitigation for a known potential attack against verifiable electronic voting machines that could help prevent insiders from being able to alter votes after the fact... more »

Lolan Song of Microsoft Research Asia discusses the mutually beneficial nature of her facility’s Great Wall Plan agreement with China’s Ministry of Education... more »

To optimize the performance of web crawlers, various measures of page importance have been studied to select and order URLs in crawling. Most sophisticated measures (e.g. breadth-first and PageRank) are based on link structure. In this paper, we treat the problem from another perspective and propose to directly measure page importance through mi.. more »

Differential privacy describes a promise, made by a data curator to a data subject: you will not be affected, adversely or otherwise, by allowing your data to be used in any study, no matter what other studies, data sets, or information from other sources is available. At their best, differentially private database mechanisms can make confidential .. more »

An Overview of Deep-Structured Learning for Information Processing.. more »

Microsoft Research Asia scientists help Kinect fox Xbox 360 distinguish among multiple players... more »