Microsoft Research Shows Off New Projects On College Recruiting Tour

In a recent college recruiting tour, Microsoft's Craig Mundie was able to showcase some of the experiments coming out of their Research division. Among some of the interesting projects were another pass at the Minority Report interface, eye-tracking, intelligent data sorting, a global carbon-climate model, and several other software and hardware experiments. A video and supporting slideshow are also available via Microsoft's press site. "Mundie also will discuss the kinds of computers students will soon be using – machines that will respond to gestures through new natural user interfaces; deploy the power of new microprocessors; migrate data to the cloud; and use live data to drive new simulations and visualizations. He’ll center on an environmental theme to show what it might be like to be a research scientist working on zero carbon energy in the future using new interactions with data and computers to increase insight."

In other news,

[melikamp]

Microsoft released a product that does not suck. Unfortunately, it is a vacuum cleaner.

Re:In other news,

[Itninja]

I don't get it. Vacuums don't suck. It's the outside pressure pushing dirt into it. So technically the MS Vacuum(tm) was a success.

Re:Bar of soap mouse

[recharged95]

There's an app for that on the iTunes appstore.