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Lots of us have our own predictions about the Oscars. But when David Rothschild shares his, we pay attention. Rothschild, an economist from Microsoft Research New York City, uses data from prediction markets to make his forecasts, and last year he correctly forecast winners in 19 of the 24 Academy Award categories. His predictions for winners of this year’s awards are out.

Pan and zoom through Seattle with an amazing level of detail. Can you spot the more than 70 artists and performers captured within the 20 gigapixel image?

Microsoft Research announced its Open Access policy for researcher’s publications Monday, saying the policy will benefit Microsoft Research “and the external research community by empowering our researchers to share their work freely.”

On Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West,” the head of Microsoft Research Peter Lee showed how the company’s work on a “smart elevator” using artificial intelligence can figure out what floor a person wants to go to, based on their history and other factors.

Desney Tan, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research begins his blog like so: “Yesterday, my long-time friends and colleagues Babak Parviz and Brian Otis announced on the Google blog their intent to develop a glucose-sensing contact lens. I’m not usually a blogger, but given that my inbox and voicemail are stuffed with calls for comments and queries about the relationship of this project to the one Microsoft Research worked on with Babak and Brian a few years ago, I thought I’d use this forum to provide my perspective…”