Siri, the iPhone 4S's voice, grew from a five-year research project that was funded by military agency DARPA and led by SRI International, a Bay Area research institute.
That's the goal of a project under development by Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Media Presence Research Group at the Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
Research staff member Jennifer Lai told CNN that designing workspaces for the future is an enormous area of research.
Andrews Experimental Forest and Biosphere Reserve, thus serving as a large control area for research.
She said taking privacy of the individual into consideration was also a key area of research.
One large area of research is in plaques of beta amyloid which form on the brain.
Professor Kinsley said he became interested in this area of research after his wife had a baby.
This area of research remains somewhat controversial in medicine, because critics say this could lead to human cloning.
When this area of research began, scientists had no way of knowing what applications and solutions would emerge.
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Making it rain away from big events is a key area of research.
Dr Garcia-Chevesich said this area of research was controversial because changing the design of flood defences was very expensive.
Dr Williamson says that computer architecture that will automatically hamper, mitigate, disrupt or confuse attacks is a rich area of research.
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Rather than simply attaching sophisticated pieces of technology to garments, a large area of research is creating textiles that have electronics built into them.
"This area of research into the possible link between sleep apnea and heart disease is very much an emerging field of study, " Dr. Somers says.
This protein - which is produced naturally in jellyfish - is commonly used in this area of research to monitor the activity of altered genes.
These lab results shed more light on this area of research.
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Hunting for other targets in the early 1980s, he focused on a protein called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, then a hot area of research.
The evolution and function of these emotions is bound up with an area of research called theory of mind, to which this survey will return later.
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said carbon capture was still an area in research and development and no one knew if it could be made to work on a large scale.
Figuring out what will happen to the universe isn't a new area of research, but the math becomes a lot more telling once you have the approximate mass of the Higgs boson.
Technically speaking, a big challenge in this area of research was to deal with a classic instance of the so-called simultaneity problem: incarceration rates affect crime rates, but the converse is also true.
This is a complex area of research, however.
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At the time the hot research area was in testing G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs.
It will be interesting to see where this area of plasmonics research goes.
Academics can develop and share code within their niche research area, and as a result the entire community benefits from their effort.
Michelson started focusing on an area of genetic research called RNA interference.
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