Microsoft TechFest brings its worldwide researchers from the lab to Redmond to share their passion to their Microsoft product teams. The researcher who publish their papers, who files disclosures, who put patents; either develops the prototype or proof of concepts demonstrates to the product team to bring the science into form of technology and then to a markatable product. This is sound and cool way to allow research.
Microsoft TechFest 2009
A good summary of the techfest is right here at arstechnica.
[Excerpts: significant research highlighted]
* Real-Time Stitching of Mobile-Generated Videos
* Recognizing Characters Written in the Air
* Tools and Services for Data-Intensive Research
* Social Media and Learning Theory
* Social Desktop
* Lightweight Software Transactions for Games
* Image-Centric Advertisement Platform
* Social Views of E-mail
* SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
* Audio Spatialization and AEC for Teleconferencing
* Predicting Performance Problems in the Data Center
* Codename Viveri: A Platform for Search Incubation
* Commute UX: Dialog System for In-Car Infotainment
* User-Interaction Advertising Platform
* Algorithms and Cryptography
* Helping Writers Find the Right Words
* Color-Structured Image Search
* Tool Kit for Visualizing Large-Scale Data
* Concurrency Analysis Platform and Tools
* Gale-Berlekamp Light-Bulb Game
* Content Services for Minority Languages
* Digital Past to Digital Presence
* Opinion Search
* Mobile Content-Casting and Social Exchange
* Low-Power Processors in the Data Center
* Closed-Loop Control Systems for the Data Center
* Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector
* Situated Interaction
* Solver Foundation: Mathematical Optimization
* Renlifang: Web-Scale Entity Summarization
* GeoLife 2.0: A Location-Based Social Network
* Sticky Notes in Augment Reality
* Specification Inference of Security
* Profiling the Performance of Distributed Systems
* Closing Thoughts
I have not yet done digesting all of PDC2008 developer conference materials and I have another suite of research articles to consume. Either I am too much consious about the technology and research or its really accelerating to prove the singularity or the space of technium.
