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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Refalm on 19 April 2003, 15:06

Title: Microsoft Research seeks better search
Post by: Refalm on 19 April 2003, 15:06

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Michael Kanellos: A prototype application called "Stuff I've Seen," for instance, will store every screen that has popped up on a given computer monitor for a year. Another prototype called "Ask MSR" allows users to pose queries using the natural flow of language, asking "Where is Saddam Hussein?" for example.

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Michael Kanellos: While the system currently only recognizes a few simple gestures, it will expand. Volume in a future version of Windows Media Player could be adjusted, hypothetically, with a wrist-twisting motion, Wilson said. He added that a friend advised the special effects team on "Minority Report" on building Tom Cruise's gesture-driven PC screens.

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Read more (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997350.htm).

Title: Microsoft Research seeks better search
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 19 April 2003, 21:38

This explain why Minority Report was such a crap film.

Title: Microsoft Research seeks better search
Post by: xyle_one on 20 April 2003, 00:00

minority report was a well done "film noir", just moderinized. i loved it for that. it was also filmed real well, and the bleached effect on the film was fantastic. as were the effects. but i really do not care for effects that much.

Title: Microsoft Research seeks better search
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 28 April 2003, 13:17

Wow, "Stuff I've Seen" sounds soooo useful... the day they release 100EB hard disks... Will they come free with it?