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Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

April 4, 2014

Gaurav Sharma appeared relaxed but focused in his purple hoodie on January 16, 2014. Less than 20 seconds later, Sharma, a 15-year-old from Lakeside High School in Seattle, found himself the owner of a Guinness…

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Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

Johnathan Hook, Peter Wright, Thomas Nappey, Patrick Olivier, Steve Hodges

CHI 2014 Extended Abstracts | April 2014

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PrintSense: A Versatile Sensing Technique to Support Multimodal Flexible Surface Interaction

Nan-Wei Gong, Jürgen Steimle, Simon Olberding, Steve Hodges, Nicolas Gillian, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Joseph A. Paradiso

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | April 2014

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Type-Hover-Swipe in 96 Bytes: A Motion Sensing Mechanical Keyboard

Stuart Taylor, Cem Keskin, Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, John Helmes

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 (Best Paper Award) | April 2014

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Circuit Stickers: Peel-and-Stick Construction of Interactive Electronic Prototypes

Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, Nicholas Chen, Tushar Chugh, Jie Qi, Diana Nowacka, Yoshihiro Kawahara

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | April 2014

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Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-visitation: A Long Term Field Study of the Photobox

William T. Odom, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, David Kirk, Tim Regan, Mark Selby, Jodi L. Forlizzi, John Zimmerman

Proceedings of the 32Nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2014

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EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger

Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014

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AN3: A Low-Cost, Circuit-Switched Datacenter Network

Eric Chung, Andreas Nowatzyk, Tom Rodeheffer, Chuck Thacker, Fang Yu

MSR-TR-2014-35 | March 2014

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Uncertain< T >: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data

James Bornholt, Todd Mytkowicz, Kathryn S McKinley, Kathryn McKinley

March 2014

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Quick and Dirty: Streamlined 3D Scanning in Archaeology

Jarrod Knibbe, Kenton O'Hara, Angeliki Chrysanthi, Mark T. Marshall, Peter D. Bennett, Graeme Earl, Shahram Izadi, Mike Fraser

March 2014

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu | Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

Inclusive Digital Maker Futures for Children via Physical Computing | Event

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

PrintSense: A Versatile Sensing Technique to Support Multimodal Flexible Surface Interaction

Type-Hover-Swipe in 96 Bytes: A Motion Sensing Mechanical Keyboard

Circuit Stickers: Peel-and-Stick Construction of Interactive Electronic Prototypes

Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-visitation: A Long Term Field Study of the Photobox

EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

AN3: A Low-Cost, Circuit-Switched Datacenter Network

Uncertain< T >: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data

Quick and Dirty: Streamlined 3D Scanning in Archaeology

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