Photos: Tinkering around at TechFest 2009
Microsoft's internal science fair shows employees (and press) what the company's research teams are working on in their labs.
Photo storage
REDMOND, Wash.--With its annual TechFest, Microsoft gives its researchers the opportunity to show off what they have cooking in the lab to employees in other business units in a science fair setting.
Microsoft researcher Stuart Taylor shows a tool that aims to build a better the shoebox for storing photos. Icons represent characteristics such as a color, photos with certain faces, or recent photos. By moving the icon toward the center of the screen, photos with that characteristic become more heavily represented in the collection of photos displayed.
Writing in the air
LucidTouch
Rick Rashid and Craig Mundie look at Commute UX
Sticky notes
Real-time mobile video streams
Prototype data centers
Recommendation systems
In a social media and learning theory presentation at TechFest, graphs demonstrate the dynamics involved in developing recommendation systems that collect and weigh opinions posted across a social network.