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Of the 150-odd demos in TechFest 2009, the best-named is Digital Past to Digital Presence, a collection of concepts from the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge . David Kirk , a post-doctoral researcher in the group, explains what ties the technologies together. "Both bits...
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Aditya Nori , a researcher in the Rigorous Software Engineering team at Microsoft Research India , just gave me a brief overview of his demo, entitled Specification Inference for Security, and as he made repeated references to the poster in his TechFest booth, I though it would be instructive to share...
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Some of the demos featured in TechFest 2009 were submitted by the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center , and i got a chance to speak with a couple of Cairo researchers, Kareem Darwish and Motaz El-Saban, about their work. "We're trying to enable multilingual search," Darwish said, "in...
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Zaiqing Nie of the Web Search & Mining Group at Microsoft Research Asia is demonstrating a project called EntityCube , an English-language version of a wildly popular Chinese project called Renlifang . In Mandarin, "renlifang" means "three people." The nomenclature is intentional...
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To be honest, it wasn't too difficult to track down the woman who served as the model for the virtual receptionist in the Situated Interaction demo. Her name is Andrea, and she works as a group assistant in Building 99, the headquarters of Microsoft Research Redmond . Andrea isn't actually a...
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One of the more intriguing demos on display during TechFest 2009 is called Situated Interaction, a project by Eric Horvitz and Dan Bohus of Microsoft Research Redmond that aims to enable a new generation of interactive systems that can reason about their surroundings and provide an engaging, appropriate...
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Ivan Tashev (right) shows the Commute UX demo to Rick Rashid ( left ), senior vice president of Microsoft Research, and Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer. Ivan Tashev, principal architect in the Speech Technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond , has one of those smiles...
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I just ran into Roy Levin , Microsoft distinguished engineer and managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley , in the Rainier/St. Helens Room at the Microsoft Conference Center. We found ourselves marveling at Commute UX, one of the TechFest 2009 demos I'll be posting about soon, and I...
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Moises Goldszmidt ( above ), principal researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley , is showing a pair of demos, in conjunction with lab colleague Mihai Budiu , that examines performance in data centers. "The challenge," Goldszmidt says, "is: How do I summarize thousands of machines...
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Today is Public Day, when a select group of partners, customers, and media get an opportunity to view a few dozen of the demos on display during TechFest 2009. The day's events began promptly at 10 a.m. with introductory remarks from Rick Rashid , senior vice president of Microsoft Research, and...
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On occasion, TechFest, Microsoft Research’s annual technology extravaganza, seems just like Old Home Week. Researchers from the six Microsoft Research labs worldwide congregate in Redmond in the waning days of winter, renewing acquaintances, comparing notes, swapping stories. It’s always...
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Three hundred fifty computers. Two hundred twenty-five monitors, Almost a mile of computer cable. More than 6,500 attendees. Almost seven months of preparation. Three days of technical setup. Four hours of tear-down. About 500 researchers, most of them sporting forest-green, short-sleeved polo shirts...
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OK, consider me dazzled. This afternoon, I got to spend a few minutes with Yuval Peres , principal researcher within Microsoft Research Redmond's Theory Group . In viewing the Theory Group's TechFest demos over the past few years, it has occurred to me that computational theory occupies a space...
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I mentioned the other day that I had run into Feng Zhao , principal researcher in the Networked Embedded Computing group, who was looking particularly happy at the moment. Well, Feng has been demonstrating the reason for his delight over the past three days: a set of small, wireless sensor devices, branded...
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Andrew Herbert , managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge , was busily reading e-mail when I passed him in the hall a few minutes ago, so I doubled back and asked him to provide a brief statement about the value of TechFest for his lab and for the larger organization. His response: "The...