哪些产品来自于微软的研究 - 是尝试还是应用工厂

What products have come out of Microsoft Research

http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-Research/What-products-have-come-out-of-Microsoft-Research

 

Windows

 

• 增强文字的清晰度字体 ClearType subpixel text rendering, included in Windows XP
• 文本阅读+语音识别 Text-to-speech and speech recognition, included in Windows 2000 and Vista, respectively
• 侧边栏 Sideshow, a sidebar concept with extensible widgets, included in Windows Vista as Windows Sidebar and in Windows 7 as Windows Desktop Gadgets 
• IPV6支持 IPv6 support, included in Windows XP

Xbox

• 运动捕捉+身体识别 Kinect motion capture and body part recognition
• 玩家评分+玩家匹配 TrueSkill, a player ranking and matching algorithm for Xbox Live
• 人工智能实现的路径查找 The Path of Go, an Xbox Live Arcade game with a Go AI developed in F# by Markus Jost, a Microsoft Research intern

Bing

• 图片自动合成 MapStitcher, a low-cost technique for orthographic image stitching used in Bing Maps Bird's Eye View 
• 图片3D模拟 Photosynth, a system for reconstructing 3D scenery from photographs used in Bing Maps Streetside 
• 路况预报+路径选择 Clearflow/JamBayes, a traffic jam forecasting and avoidance algorithm used in Bing Maps directions 
• 搜索引擎支持的Twitter实时信息 Twigg, a platform for real-time information processing used for real-time Twitter results in Bing search
• Bing翻译器 Microsoft Translator, a translation backend used in Bing Translator

Visual Studio/.NET

• .NET上的函数程序设计语言 F#, an ML-family language on the .NET framework with first-class support in Visual Studio 2010 
• .NET 泛型 .NET Generics, an implementation of parametric polymorphism for the .NET CLR 
• 测量专业标准的软件特性 Code metrics in Visual Studio, including Code Churn, Maintainability Index, Cyclomatic Complexity, Depth of Inheritance, Class Coupling and Lines of Code

Office

• 可交互的图像前景分割技术 GrabCut, an approach to interactive image foreground extraction included in Office 2010 as Background Removal 
• 垃圾过滤器 SmartScreen spam filtering, included in Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2003 asExchange Intelligent Message Filter
• 应答机检测 Answering machine detection, included in Office Communications Server 2007 as DetectAnsweringMachineActivity

SQL Server

• 决策树 Decision trees, a classification and regression algorithm included in SQL Server 2005
• 栈物化视图（视图上的物化视图） Stacked indexed views, included in SQL Server 2005

Windows Live Essentials

• 自动筛选最佳照片 Group Shot, a way to merge multiple group photos to get the best one, included in Live Photo Gallery as Photo Fuse

Tablet PC

• 数字墨水（手写识别） Digital Ink handwriting recognition technology, included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Hardware

• 支持直接交互、多触点、多用户，目标识别平面 Surface（很大的平板电脑？）, started and jointly developed by Andy Wilson of MSR
• 支持手势的鼠标 Mouse 2.0, a series of gesture-based mouse prototypes, finalized and marketed as Touch Mouse (scheduled to ship in May 2011)
• 全方位全景摄像机支持的视频会议 RoundTable, a 360-degree videoconferencing device that detects who's speaking