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Microsoft Research's David Rothschild suggests a fundamental model for predicting the winners of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races months well before Election Day.

New device lets surgeons consult medical images during an operation without having to scrub out.

Neeraj Kayal of Microsoft Research India has been named one of the recipients of the 2012 Medal for Young Scientists from the Indian National Science Academy.

Aleksander Madry and David Steurer of Microsoft Research New England have been awarded Honorable Mention awards by the Association for Computing Machinery as part of its Doctoral Dissertation Award program.

Microsoft hopes its SoundWave will let you interact with your PC using hand gestures in mid-air rather than on a keyboard.

A recent post discussed translation work from Microsoft Research that has been incorporated into Windows Phone. But wait, there’s more!

Dino Distefano, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, has been named as the winner of the BCS Roger Needham Award sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge.

It was another amazing year for the annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Here are some of the highlights.

The Naiad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley focuses on enabling incremental and iterative computation for big-data analysis.

Researchers from Microsoft Research Redmond and MIT have devised a technique, being presented during the 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, to deliver quick answers to user questions about relatively obscure topics.

Microsoft researchers have turned a display annoyance into a way to show two different images simultaneously.

A new system developed by Microsoft Research enables people in remote locations to share and interact with real and virtual objects.

Low-tech phone technology from Microsoft Research enables images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest.

SoundWave, a project from Microsoft Research, lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor.

People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have demonstrated.

Microsoft Research has released an interesting application designed to make it slightly easier to learn Mandarin.

Microsoft researchers participating in CHI 2012 show new ways for sound, light, motion, and ordinary consumer electronics to enhance human interaction with computers.

The New York lab will search for patterns in aggregated user data and suggest new revenue sources for Microsoft's existing products.

On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City.

On May 3, Microsoft Research announced the creation of its newest lab, this one located in New York City.