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...what it's like if you want to drive some place, see what a place looks like. That's a huge project. With all sorts of scales and costing a lot and representing a huge bet that we can only do because we're a large company. The Tablet PC with this handwriting recognition and helping to get new hardware to get it done. So being able to take on ambitious things, speech recognition, language translation, vision capability, those come because we're taking the success we've had and reinvesting very heavily. We're the most R&D focused...
...Gates:There are a lot of breakthroughs that once we make them we think, "ah geez we should have come up with that five years earlier, that maybe the pieces were there." Sometimes we start too early on things. With the Tablet PC we started 10 years ago. Someone could say, "geez you could have waited to start that." This revolution in internet TV is very personal and interactive. We started on that over a decade ago, and it has taken a long time for the costs of all the pieces to come down. Now, in the U.S. we have...
...Adaptive Technologies Group has developed a prototype that deploys a web-enabled wireless device with photo-taking function-ideally a cellphone camera-to search the web using images, rather than keywords. The wi fi camera sends images to the PC which uploads it to a server that then tries to recognize the picture by searching through a database of images. The server does all the search work and sends the results back to the user's cell phone. "They always say a picture is worth a thousand words," says team member Larry Zitnick. "So imagine I'm at the grocery...
...technical assistant. Gupta's job is to see that researchers get their ideas in front of the people in charge of the Windows Media Products that use that technology. Back in January of 2003 Gupta's group came up with a telephony prototype that connected the phone to the PC. When a call comes to the user's phone, it rings on the PC, and shows the user who's calling. A prompt allows the user to transfer the call to his mobile phone or home or office phone and then take the call...
...Calgary that was presented at a leading conference on computer and human interaction, reporting on the development of the prototype and the results of user studies with the enhanced telephony device. The resulting product, Microsoft Office Communicator, which brings together email, IM telephony and other features on the PC, began shipping last May and is currently in the hands of more than 10 million users, he says. Microsoft's goal is to attract 200 million. If collaboration between research and the business side can keep producing that kind of growth at Microsoft, Bill Gates will most certainly have...