Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie sees technologies converging to transform how humans and computers work together. It’s safe to say that computers have become a bit more powerful over the past 15 years. Cellular technology untethered our phones. The Internet brought the world into our...

At TED2010 this week, Live Labs Director Gary Flake presents an experiment in data visualization that allows people to make more sense of the growing amount of information that surrounds them. A Microsoft technical fellow and director of Live Labs , Gary Flake has made a career out of building technologies...

Microsoft Research Ltd is believed to be close to agreeing a deal with the University of Cambridge to virtually double its space on the institution’s West Cambridge site. Microsoft needs extra space to facilitate its rapid growth from Cambridge and reports from the local property sector suggested it...

It turns out 2019 is getting closer every day. At the moment, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie is doing the rounds at a number of prestigious colleges in the States showing off Microsoft’s vision for technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. Of course, one must use...

A team of Microsoft developers is working on a platform that couples online maps with video to create richer driving directions. The researchers, along with developers from the University of Konstanz in Germany, create the video using the 360-degree photos companies like Google produce for Street View...

Lecture series by celebrated physics professor Richard Feynman is now available to all. Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, today launched a Web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general...

From the Photosynth Blog: The world will change on January 20th when Barack Obama, the President-elect takes the oath of office and becomes the 44 th President of the United States. "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to...

Kodu, a game to be released on an Xbox Live Community Games channel in the spring, helps youngsters learn to program and lets them create their own video games to play and share. For children, learning to program at an early age can open up a lifetime of creativity and opportunity. And with Kodu, a new...

Microsoft Tag is a new system to help give you a way to direct people to a URL using the camera on their mobile phone. You can think of it as TinyURL for optics, or Cue Cat on-the-go minus the hokey cat reader (hey, I know lots of people who loved that thing). It's actually a great system to visually...

The Microsoft Research team responsible for WorldWide Telescope has just pushed out another update (v 2.2.41.1). Code named “Solstice Borealis” the new release includes a couple sweet and mind boggling features. National Virtual Observatory Cone Search / Registry Lookup – Search through the United States...