Microsoft Introduces OneAlbum, Fusing facial Recognition and Social Networks
By Hammad  |  14 days ago  |  3 CommentsMicrosoft

Microsoft Introduces OneAlbum, Fusing facial Recognition and Social Networks

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...

By Imran Hussain  |  282 days ago  |  2 CommentsMicrosoft

A tour of Microsoft Research labs in Cambridge

Reuters recently did a tour of Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge where they were shown Second Light, Sense Cam and other projects being worked on. They also have a huge, antique disk platter from main frames which had just 1 MB capacity. Surface PC and touch based computing seem to be a priority in the research labs as they show a few...

Gazelle – a Chrome like Web Browser from Microsoft Research.
By Imran Hussain  |  345 days ago  |  4 CommentsMicrosoft

Gazelle – a Chrome like Web Browser from 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....

SearchTogether Beta from Microsoft Research
By Imran Hussain  |  346 days ago  |  1 CommentMicrosoft

SearchTogether Beta from Microsoft Research

                        SearchTogether is a project from Microsoft Research which features include group query histories, split searching, page-level rating and commenting, automatically-generated shared summaries, peek-and-follow...