<Date: 2011-02-16>
<Author: Austin>
<Category: Hardware, Research>
The battle between mankind and machine has been long-fought. Deep Blue, a computer built to play chess by analyzing every possible move, beat chess champ Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since then, major leaps have been taken in the areas of Artificial Intelligence. IBM’s newest challenge was Watson, a super-computer capable of playing Jeopardy. 4 years after programming for Watson began, Watson faced off against Jeopardy winners like Ken Jennings, and won. Read more...
Permalink: IBM’s ‘Watson’ Advances Artificial Intelligence
<Date: 2010-03-04>
<Author: Hammad>
<Category: Microsoft, Research>
Recently, we wrote about Microsoft’s upcoming project, Mobile Surface, which was introduced at the TechFest 2010 in Redmond. Microsoft demonstrated another cool project at TechFest 2010 called OneAlbum that uses facial recognition and event-matching technology to automatically retrieve photos that would interest you from your social networks and your friends’ online photo albums and add them to yours. Read more...
Permalink: Microsoft Introduces OneAlbum, Fusing facial Recognition and Social Networks
<Date: 2009-04-08>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Research>
Channel 9 has this great video on the Gazelle web browser project by Microsoft Research. It’s being constructed on an operating system architecture, which means improved security, resource handling and sharing.
Gazelle’s Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work has identified, such as legacy protection of cross-origin script source, and cross-principal, cross-process display and events protection.
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Permalink: Gazelle – a Chrome like Web Browser from Microsoft Research.
<Date: 2009-04-06>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Research>
