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Buxton’s influence has been enormous. His contributions to the field of human-computer interaction start with music: coupling sound, music, and computers through tools, instruments, and even score editors.

In the summer of 2008, the leadership at Microsoft Research Redmond reorganized an existing set of research groups with a refreshed, more encompassing mandate: reinventing all aspects of software development. The revamped area, Research in…

Award citation: The Leadership Award honored Dr. Gary Sullivan of Microsoft for his contributions to video coding and its standardization. The results of Sullivan’s research and his contributions are integral parts of today’s modern video…

Microsoft Research has released CHESS, an automated tool for finding errors — data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations — in multithreaded software by systematically exploring thread schedules. Once CHESS locates an error, it…

Microsoft’s CHESS, a two-year-in-the-making tool from Microsoft Research designed to help developers test for concurrency errors, is set to make its public debut in two weeks. Microsoft researchers developed CHESS to help developers improve the…

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2008 to the Joint Video Team (JVT), an engineering experts’ group led by its chairman Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft, for…

At least once each year I trek on over to visit my colleagues at Microsoft Research. It’s actually not much of a trek. The group’s headquarters are really just a few blocks from my own…

Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie on Thursday demonstrated a software-based robot that uses a combination of visual and voice recognition as well as speech synthesis to handle basic tasks.

A novel way of interacting with computers and other gadgets could make twiddling your thumbs a productive activity. Microsoft researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle…