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In the news | PCWorld
Study Finds Major Weaknesses in Single Sign-on Systems
The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else, security researchers have reported.
In the news | The Register
Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer
Windows Server 8 – along with the suite of associated 2012-ish server applications – is nothing short of a complete redefinition of the server landscape.
Social Search Social Builds Bridges
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Two conferences, same region, consecutive weeks—sounds like a perfect opportunity for a social. That’s certainly what sprang to mind for Meredith Ringel Morris, researcher in the Natural Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond…
In the news | ITA 2012
Keynote by Ivan Tashev | Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics [Video]
Keynote by Ivan Tashev from Microsoft Research at ITA 2012 on Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics
In the news | NAE
Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
For contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards.
In the news | ASweetLife
Information-Rich Eyeballs? Talking to Microsoft’s Desney Tan about the Functional Contact Lens
Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak Parviz and his Bio-Nanotechnology Lab…
In the news | WSAS
Inducted as a Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Henrique S. Malvar was inducted as a Section 2: Engineering and Technology member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2012. Field(s) of Expertise: Signal processing, enhancement/compression, decompositions, coding theory
A Fresh Perspective on Internet Security
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center People don’t do enough to protect themselves on the Internet. They don’t use good passwords. They’re poor at recognizing the URL of “phishing” sites. They ignore certificate errors. Yet, to Cormac Herley,…
In the news | GeekWire
Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW
With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, without…