TechFest ‘08 showcases projects to enhance social networking and search functions
Microsoft invited its research teams across the globe to showcase their innovative offerings at the keenly awaited TechFest. They all gathered at the software maker’s headquarters to display their projects that focused on a diverse range of themes and functions. One of them was aimed at helping Internet users compile their friends’ social network profiles from different sources in one place. Researchers devised an IE plug-in for people based at different locations to save their search results and share notes. They also showcased a plug-in, which made accessible the pages visited during online search in easier fashion.
‘The World Wide telescope’, designed by Researcher Curtis Wong, showcased at the Microsoft TechFest ‘08 was an atypical tangible demonstration. An application that enables computer users to zoom from one galaxy to another, it included images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and a few other sources. Another notable project at the TechFest included innovations that used the data collected from sensors for more terrestrial purposes. Researchers from UK showed how a system of sensors, radio frequency identification tags and GPS data were fused into one to track the feeding habits of a local bird population, as a way to understand how changes in climate and other variables affected the species.
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