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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