Some coverage of research efforts

• Digital valets might happen in 2001, Kevin Maney, USA TODAY.
  
  
• Keynote address by Bill Gates at CTIA Wireless conference, where he describes R & D on the Notification Platform project and demonstrates the Priorities system.
  
  
• A Look Inside Microsoft Research, Sara Hedberg, IEEE Intelligent Systems (March, April '98) (highlights of work on intelligent systems at Microsoft Research. article copyright IEEE Intelligent Systems 1998, used with permission.).
  
  
• Managing the Mountain: For too many people, information is proving to be more of a burden than a resource. But help is on the way. Don Clark, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 1999.
  
  
• Spam Killers, William Baldwin, Forbes Magazine, September 1998 (on research and development on detecting, filtering out junk email
  
  
• AI by another name, The Economist, March 2002.
  
  
• Intelligent agent technology staging a comeback, Paul Festa, CNET News.
  
  
• Big Ideas From Small Creatures, Rebecca Vesely, Business 2.0 Magazine, Image: hanging out with the jellies, January 1999.
  
  
• Computer Scientists Search for Ties to Biological Intelligence, Tim Studt, editor in chief, R&D Magazine, October 1998.
  
  
• Intelligence Considered, Philip Yam, Scientific American, November 1998.
  
  
• Biology Computes, Chris O'Malley, Popular Science, January 1999.
  
  
• From Carbon to Silicon: Scientists Map Convergence of Brains and Computers, Michael J. Martinez, ABCNEWS.com, August 1998. (Click here for additional coverage on the Institute on Intelligent Systems, August 1998).
  
  
• Mr. Gates Builds His Brain Trust, Randall Stross and Alicia Hills Moore, Fortune Magazine, December 1997.
  
  
• A national television commercial featuring the Lookout system, highlighting conversation with a computer-based assistant. View at low or at higher bandwidth.
  
  
• Microsoft and the Reverend Bayes, Thomas Eppel, Decision Analysis Society Newsletter, December 1996.
  
  
• Improbable Inspiration, Leslie Helm, Los Angeles Times, October 1996.
  
  
• A Kinder, Gentler Usenet , Janelle Brown, Salon, September 1998.
  
  
• A.I. Reboots, Michael Hiltzik, MIT Technology Review, March '02. Image: whiteboard scrawl
  
  
• Microsoft is Calling You, Phil Harvey, Red Herring, June '00 (article on Priorities and Notification Platform projects).
  
  
• Microsoft Sees Software Agent as Way to Avoid Distractions, John Markoff, New York Times, July '00 (article on Notification Platform and overall Attentional User Interface project).
  
  
• Microsoft Invests in Mathematicians, Allyn Jackson, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, June-July 1998.
  
  
• Artificial intelligence isn't just a movie, Kevin Maney, USA Today, June 2001.
  
  
• Mobile Manager has an almost telepathic ability to distinguish junk mail from genuinely important messages, Economist, March 2001.
  
  
• Anticiparallelism (aka Continual Computation). Gary Anthes, Computerworld, January 2002.
  
  
• From the Ether. Bob Metcalfe writes on some of his long-term and more recent passions, including continual computation.
  
  
• A special Fawcette Pub compilation on The Future of Software, Nov, '00. Interview on several efforts in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction team at MS Research..
  
  
• Juggling props with the gang in a Newsweek centerfold, March 1998.
  
  
• FDA plays hardball with software: Even stand-alone programs are regulated as a medical device, Greg Borzo, American Medical News, August 1996.
  
  
• Robotics, Virtual Worlds Meet Medicine, Sharyn Rosenbaum, Health Industry Today, November 1992.