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Microsoft allows developers below the Surface at last
News The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) at the end of the month. Microsoft made that pledge... [07 Oct 2008]
FEM Study of Nano-Structured Surface-Relief Optical Data Storage
White Paper It begins the study with surface relief structures. The university studies the ability of sub-resolution optical structures to store data. Because it is probing features whose sizes are much smaller than the wavelength... [04 Feb 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo Also making an appearance at Olympia was Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology which is being used by a number of businesses - including Barclays' high-tech bank branch in London's Piccadilly Circus. [19 Jan 2009]
Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T
News Microsoft has announced it has its first customer ready to put Surface computers into public use. Each store will have a few of the Surface machines where customers can compare the features of different... [02 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Surface Supports Customer Creation of Branded, Visually Rich Applications
White Paper Imagine placing a digital camera on a tabletop screen and seeing the pictures spill out onto the surface. With no obvious point of interaction except its multi-touch screen, Microsoft Surface is the... [10 Dec 2008]
Mining Text for Golden Service - What Value Glimmers Below the Surface?
White Paper Drawn from numerous departments and functions - sales, service, production, engineering and purchasing, etc.text-based data can often represent a perplexing dilemma: One accumulate a large volume of textual information and may recognize... [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth
Photo This table-like device is actually a demonstration of Microsoft's Surface technology, which the company had been showing off in London. It uses a 30" screen, several cameras, a Vista PC and a projector to create an... [02 Oct 2007]
US boffins to paint PC screens onto any surface
News Scientists in the US say they have invented a new form of polymer paint that could be used to "paint" computer screens onto any surface. According to the EE Times, researchers at the University of Arizona have pioneered... [11 Apr 2002]
Microsoft still tinkering with Surface
News Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" when it demos its Surface computer, the company is finding the task of bringing the tabletop computer to market a little rougher than it anticipated. [09 Nov 2007]
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
White Paper A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for attacks, there are... [24 Aug 2009]
Security woes surface over Microsoft's Smartphone
News Microsoft is telling users of its mobile applications that they can send confidential company information over wireless networks even though the technology they use isn't 100 per cent secure. Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 - formerly known... [14 Feb 2002]
IPS Vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
White Paper A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. This paper explains why that notion is incorrect. [29 Feb 2008]
Photos: Getting hands on with Microsoft touch
Photo The ability for a surface computer to project multiple images - one on the screen and the other above it - allows for the creation of "magic lenses" such as these that appear to be able to peer inside the car to its... [22 Oct 2008]
Photos: Microsoft Surfaces in Vegas
Photo Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside... [07 Mar 2008]
Signal-Specialized Parameterization for Piecewise Linear Reconstruction
White Paper This paper proposes a metric for surface parameterization specialized to its signal that can be used to create more efficient, high-quality texture maps. Derived from Taylor expansion of signal error, the metric predicts... [19 Jul 2007]
