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Forming innovation clusters
Cluster Stew: the European Commission is formulating an all-embracing strategy on cluster development to boost innovation and maximise returns from...
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How to solve the cluster equation?
In 1997, Microsoft opened its first big European lab – and it placed it in what was then Europe's only serious answer to Silicon Valley: Cambridge, in...
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Wanted: more ‘gazelles’ in Europe
The Science|Business Innovation Board says Europe's innovation policies need to change, to encourage high-growth entrepreneurs.
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Rewarding enterprise on campus
It’s a familiar story: invented in Europe, commercialised abroad.
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Developing tomorrow’s embedded computers
Research and development in highly complex fields – such as embedded computer systems – relies heavily on partnerships in which the strengths of the...
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The EU needs clusters of excellence
Is the essence of a cluster physical proximity or, given broadband Internet and associated communications platforms, is it possible to create virtual...
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How creativity toolkits and virtual collaborative environments accelerate each other
Computing pervades everyday life: whether used in business or leisure, by individuals or communities, it offers opportunities for new ways of living...
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Coming to your screen: the high-definition Internet
In an era of continual Internet innovation, one of the biggest trends is the Internet’s rapid growth as a platform for rich, high-definition content...
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The new ‘HD view’ of photography
Just when you thought there was nothing new in pictures, along comes HD View and explodes all your preconceptions about what photography can do.
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Photosynth: creating 3D photographic experiences of time and place
The Photosynth experience justifies the use of the old truism: it has to be seen to be believed.
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Online privacy: a continuous innovation agenda
Innovation in the ICT sector has transformed how a large segment of the world's population works, communicates, learns, shops and plays. Today's...
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Hail the conquerator and release the sheep
Earlier this year Microsoft Research Cambridge, in partnership with Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio team, Lionhead Studios and Rare Ltd, brought together...
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Interfacing with robots: do robots do what we want them to do?
Programming an industrial robot is still an annoying task that requires too many details and expert knowledge. Each robot unit needs to be installed...
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Archiving for the family
One of the current projects of the Socio-Digital Systems Group atMicrosoft Research in Cambridge is ‘Family Archive’. This work arose from the team’s...
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Hungarian start-up secures 100 per cent funding for photosmart project
Budapest-based start-up eSpirit sought help from European Union Grants Advisor (EUGA) and applied for government funding to develop a new Web-based...
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Exploring the globe
As more and more people share data and opinions over the Internet, geographic and location information is becoming an increasingly important dimension...
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Browsing the real world
New geoweb applications such as Microsoft’s Virtual Earth are at the confluence of two massive innovation trends – user-generated content and smart...
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The 3-D city
Football supporters and other visitors to this summer's Euro2008 football championships in Austria and Switzerland can enjoy a new experience as they...
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Computerised excavations in Pompeii
Imagine a search engine capable of recognising the details of paintings rather than words. This is the challenge facing a joint Microsoft/INRIA...
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Model your own climate
Few research issues are as significant as trying to work out how climate change might affect the environment. Unlike many scientific experiments, this...
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When geographic intelligence goes mainstream…
“When I'm making plans for my spare time, the most convenient way to do it is to ask for the location and places of restaurants, tourist sites and...
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Barcelona supercomputing center and Microsoft create joint research centre for parallel computing
On 18 January 2008, Microsoft and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the creation of the BSC – Microsoft Research Centre, which...
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When computers come to the aid of mathematics
“Mathematics must make a great leap forward”: this is the challenge that Georges Gonthier has set himself.
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A lifeline for systems biology
It is a fact universally acknowledged: the pharmaceutical industry needs a new drug development paradigm. Systems biology promises the ability to...
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Genomics and proteomics: the emerging role of machine learning
Computing and communication technologies have already had a massive impact on today's healthcare system. Even so, there is great potential for these...
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Europe’s digital future: the challenges ahead
The Lisbon Strategy's aim is to make the EU ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic...
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Innovation in IT training: the fit approach in Ireland
Working with Ireland's most disadvantaged communities, the Fastrack to IT (FIT) is a successful example of an industry initiative which brings...
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Supporting Latvia’s innovation economy through technology training for SMEs
Through its Digital Skills for SMEs program, the Latvia@World project is providing special training for small and medium sized enterprises and...
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Flying high: a technology volunteer’s story
Ali Tarabit has been a volunteer with the charity organization Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF) for almost three years. With his help, ASF has...
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