Microsoft FUSE Labs explained

Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs was started by Ray Ozzie and is run by Lili Cheng. The group focuses on real-time and media rich experiences and is located in Bellevue, WA. It used to have offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, UK. A similar, earlier initiative was Microsoft Live Labs, a collaboration between Microsoft Research and MSN which ended in 2010.^{[1] [2]}

Projects

• https://dev.botframework.com/ - Microsoft Bot Framework & Conversational AI tools for developers.
• Bing Twitter - Find out what topics are hottest on Twitter.
• Docs.com - Discover, create and share Office docs with your Facebook friends
• So.cl (http://so.cl/) - Social search service
• Kodu Game Lab - Kodu Game Lab.

External links

• FUSE website
  • Docs.com announced by Mark Zuckerberg, Lili Cheng and Pat Kinsel
• First Look at Docs.com by ZDnet

Notes and References

1. News: Foley. Mary Jo. Microsoft researchers think local with HereHere. Researchers at Microsoft's FuSE Labs launch a second project that investigates the intersection of hyper-local content and civic engagement.. CNet. 10 March 2014.
2. News: Bishop. Todd. Microsoft pushes Internet research, Live Labs will help bring online projects to market quickly.. Seattle Pi. 25 January 2006.