Microsoft
Bill Gates’s Vision of Future Computing: Natural User Interfaces
After 33 years of fast paced career Microsoft Chairman and Founder Bill Gates has finally retired from his position at Microsoft to devote his time into social activities and promoting other technologies which can help human-beings in future generations. At his farewell speech Gates reflected his long time passion; the human touch interfaces which he [...]
Korea’s Songdo IBD Project Collaborates with Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is all set to spread its technology goodwill in Korea. In a recent development, New York based real-estate development company Gale International, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the global technology giant. According to the MOU, Microsoft will offer technological assistance and infrastructure for the development of a standard computing environment [...]
Windows 7 Picture gets Clearer
A few weeks ago, it was reported that Bill Gates and Microsoft were going to go ahead with Multitouch technology in a way that they had not contemplated before. In essence, they were going to combine Multitouch technology with their flagship Windows operating system software, allowing people to experience both in a way that [...]
Microsoft to take over MobiComp
MobiComp may or may not be a company that you have heard of before, but this company operating out of the country of Portugal might be the next step forward for the Microsoft Multitouch revolution.
MobiComp is a company that is not very originally named, since the company focuses primarily on mobile applications. At the [...]
Windows 7 to Include Multitouch Features
Multitouch as an overall technology has really taken the world by storm, although that really has a lot more to do with Apple than it does with Microsoft. When people consider the Apple accomplishments in the field of Multitouch, the immediate conclusion that is reached has to do with the idea of Multitouch technology [...]
Operating System a Threat to Microsoft
The two biggest companies as far as Multitouch technology is concerned are Microsoft and Apple, both of which have products that are either already on the market or else are coming to the market that utilize Multitouch technology in order to create an overall electronic experience that is far beyond anything that the average user [...]
Microsoft’s New LucidTouch
With the Multitouch revolution already in full swing, a number of different companies have been coming out with multitouch devices that have made the people that purchase them very happy indeed. Microsoft has of course come out with the Surface and now they have come out with LucidTouch, something that addresses a very real [...]
Microsoft Multitouch Advertising Technology Leaps Forward
The Microsoft organization that is responsible for the implementation of new advertising technologies is the adCenter laboratory. This organization has been tasked by Microsoft with not only implementing new ideas for advertising technology, but also with developing those same ideas before they are implemented. AdCenter has been working with Multitouch technology for some [...]
Microsoft, Multitouch and Advertising
While most people know about the Microsoft Surface computer by now, at the same time there are a number of other areas within the Microsoft company where Multitouch technology is being used. For example, Microsoft has been hard at work bringing Multitouch technology to bear in terms of interactive advertising and it is something [...]
Human-Machine Interaction Research Notes from Shahram
Shahram is a researcher at Microsoft specializing in
* Novel user interfaces and input
* Interactive displays/surfaces
* Tabletop computing systems
* Tangible computing
* Multi-display environments
* hardware and recognition techniques for interactive systems
* Technologies for domains outside the office e.g. the home or public spaces
* Mobile User Interfaces and infrastructures
About His Current and Past Projects….
ThinSight: this project navigates a [...]
