From: "John Beamish" 


http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/20/one-thing-microsoft-does-way-better-than-googl
e-research/

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Either way, THANK YOU VERY MUCH to everyone at Microsoft who made this tour
possible. Especially Kevin Schofield, who showed me around the floor (he�
�s the guy you see throughout the video).

Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the
product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and what�
�s cool about it. This is the first tape. It� �s about an hour long, but
you� �ll meet some really great technologists who are doing some eye
popping research. If you can� �t handle the long version (a second one will
come up in a few days) we� �ve picked a few of the cooler parts and will
put those out shortly.

What will you see?
2:11: VIBE group shows off synchronizing via mobile phone research 10:09:
Andy Wilson shows off a cool set of apps that use video cameras in a new
way (don� �t miss this, it rocks!) 19:50: Daniel Robbins shows off a new �
�tap UI� � for phones. 23:35: Matt Uyttendaele shows off HUGE (4 gigapixel
or so) photos with a killer � �tiling� � system that displays them wicked
fast. 29:52: Linking the real world to the Web with pictures (killer camera
phone research).
34:04: Speech recognition for podcasts. 36:50: Frank Seide shows video
exploration and discovery for Media Center PCs.
45:31: Richard Harper demonstrates a bunch of hardware concepts and trials
for home users.
52:00: Vibhore Goyal shows using SMS to blogging and research in India.
54:25: Rajesh Veeraraghavan is doing research with farmers in India to find
better education systems for them.

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