Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies
Sam Stokes writes about Research in a way that is accessibile by students in College or considering their College/University Career or someone who is a life long learner!
Free Windows 8 help and software tools
Please click on the links and check out these offers, they cost you nothing and might help you make...
Date: 09/12/2012
First Prize in Imagine Cup: $50,000
Get signed up at https://www.imaginecup.com NOW. And it’s THREE, that’s right 3 $50,000 first...
Date: 08/29/2012
Rich Interactive Narratives
Check out this paper on Rich Interactive Narratives: An Interactive Multimedia Framework for Digital...
Date: 08/23/2012
NoReplyAll Outlook 2007/2010/2013 Add-in: Nifty stuff from Microsoft Research
Don’t know about you, but I have clicked the NoReplyAll and made some serious career mistakes, so...
Date: 08/20/2012
Free Online Hackathon! This is a first
Hey sign up for this free Hackathon, win prizes (as described in the link): Free Online Hackathon!...
Date: 08/15/2012
Free Development tool for the phone where you use the phone as the development tool!
Check out Touch Develop at: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchdevelop/ This is a...
Date: 08/15/2012
Kinect: Motion capture for all using the KinÊtre system
Check this video out, it’s amazing! Trying to figure if the library is available for use:
Date: 08/15/2012
Simplifying Cloud Computing with Orleans
Check out the Orleans project at: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/ A paper on...
Date: 08/04/2012
Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs
In the current environment of game design you can get away with flash and dash game design, that is...
Date: 07/20/2012
Microsoft Research and Office Labs
Well as far as I can tell have little to do with each other. I liked Office Labs when they had...
Date: 07/16/2012
C++ Security Practices in Visual Studio 2012
This is whining blog so you might want to come back later Sorry. Do you want some cheese with that...
Date: 07/15/2012
List of 5 modes of Web Use
What are the top 5 ways people use search engines and the web for? Purposeful Use When users wish to...
Date: 06/30/2012
Socio-Digital Systems: Making complex lives less complex!
Microsoft has a whole group of PhDs that are working on the idea of elegant technologies for you to...
Date: 06/29/2012
Forza Motorsport game engine: Drivatar AI
If you wonder about how the AI works in the Forza Motorsport game, this link is the one to read a...
Date: 06/28/2012
FREE! An Amazing Panorama Editor
You got that cheap camera or a phone cam and there you are standing in front of an amazing...
Date: 06/27/2012
Microsoft Research creates Mayhem, you could win $1000!
Check out this new open source application that let’s you control all kinds of things. Say you...
Date: 06/22/2012
HTML 5 Games: Irate Dolphins returns
Ok, I copyright the idea of Irate Dolphins as a game series as of today: Irate Dolphins @2012. ...
Date: 06/14/2012
What is the mood of the social networks?
Microsoft Research, using Infer.net have worked out a process to take the “pulse” of the emotions of...
Date: 06/14/2012
Health Vault: What is this digital medical chart thing?
What is Health Vault? Check out: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/jj128027 Microsoft...
Date: 05/31/2012
See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store!
Alice Pang is demonstrating Windows at the following Microsoft Stores: Wednesday, May 30 Mission...
Date: 05/29/2012
Do it yourself Brain surgery using Kinect through a secure cloud connections
(Don’t attempt surgeries of any sort, make sure to see a doctor or health professional if you feel...
Date: 05/29/2012
Brain Surgery using the Kinect!? Or maybe Interaction Proxemics is a better title
Seriously, this is an awesome paper, just think: Do it yourself Brain Surgery just like on Eureka...
Date: 05/27/2012
Security In the Cloud, part 1
What is the Service Level of Agreement (SLA) for the security of the various Cloud Storage Services...
Date: 05/26/2012
Microsoft Research Team wins the MinuteSort Challenge
Check this out for a cool last minute paper for High School classes. Sorting data over a...
Date: 05/25/2012
Medical Image Analysis and a creepy 3D image
Check out this link for a creepy but well done 3D image. Ok, ok, you likely showed on this...
Date: 05/23/2012
Touchless medicine using Kinect! What will the Osteopaths think?
Osteopathic medicine, what is it? Osteopathic medicine is a distinct form of medical practice in the...
Date: 05/22/2012
Imagining a NUI future?
Microsoft is imagining a NUI future. Kinect is one of the top consumer devices and the surface...
Date: 05/18/2012
Faculty Summit: Bing Dialog Model: Intent, Knowledge, and User Interface
Find out the basis of the changes to Bing at the Microsoft Research site:...
Date: 05/17/2012
Natural User Interface: A future computing para-dig-m or para-dig-it?
Wow, NUI, this is the thing for anyone starting out in exploring computer science. Check out...
Date: 05/16/2012
LayerScape: New use for World Wide Telescope
Science and US Students have long been an issue, with Layerscape this tool is a new way to use World...
Date: 05/02/2012
Infer.NET, wow, had someone ask me about this product
Sometimes you are these conferences and you answer pretty standard questions ask in unique ways,...
Date: 05/01/2012
FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event - 4/23/2012 - Club Nokia @ LA Live... or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it!
Attend in person If you want to attend this event use this link: FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event -...
Date: 04/20/2012
Looking into Automata? Here is a free Tool Kit for Automata
Find out what Automata is and how you can use it in your current career or future career. You...
Date: 04/19/2012
Time Travel? Or Traveling Companions on a Trajectory Data Stream?
As of April 18, 2012, either Microsoft Researh has discovered the ability to travel in time (note...
Date: 04/18/2012
Free stuff: Math Add-in for MS Word and OneNote
If you use Word or OneNote, you know that there is an equation formatter and that MS Word supports...
Date: 04/17/2012
Free photo tool that is totally cool: ClipLets
Check out this totally cool photo tool at:...
Date: 04/16/2012
Free Thinking--Probability: What was the chance that I would write about probability?
You might be in need of a paper idea for your research and you are desperate. Well if you came to...
Date: 03/29/2012
Global Warming, Climate Change or ClimateGate comes home to roost
That’s right, it comes to your house to roost. Finally you bomb your bombastic loud mouth...
Date: 03/22/2012
5 ways to use Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems
I was just thinking about Control Systems and Kinect. There are a lot of projects out there...
Date: 03/21/2012
Top 5 Research Ideas that include Windows 8 (Microsoft Research that is)
Ok, I need some time to get these ideas thought out, but for the most part, I am reading about these...
Date: 03/19/2012