Tag: MICROSOFT RESEARCH

Much has been said about Gmail's new priority inbox -- all of it good! -- but it turns out that Microsoft Research has been working on similar technology since the 1990s. Not only is there a slew of research papers detailing how the technology works (it sounds very similar to Gmail's priority inbox), but Microsoft also has a bunch of well-targeted patents filed as far back as 1999! Is this ...

Microsoft Research has pushed out some questionable stuff in the past, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Microsoft maintaining a world-renowned R&D group that hearkens back to the days when Xerox did the same thing. And even if not everything they generate is a gem, sometimes they produce something that you can't help but look at, and say "wow". Photosynth is that sort of ...