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Microsoft Azure helps build a smart campus 

April 17, 2015
As any student can tell you, university life can be stressful. Many freshmen find it difficult to adjust during their first months on campus. In addition, students who come from families with limited income may worry about living within their restricted budget. It’s no surprise,…

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  1. Microsoft Azure helps build a smart campus 

    April 17, 2015

    As any student can tell you, university life can be stressful. Many freshmen find it difficult to adjust during their first months on campus. In addition, students who come from families with limited income may worry about living within their restricted budget. It’s no surprise,…

  2. Lab of Things helping seniors who live alone 

    April 16, 2015

    Leaving an infirm, elderly relative alone at home can be a torment for both the senior citizen, who may face inconvenient or even life-threatening situations, and the family, who worries about the health and safety of their loved one. Unfortunately, this troubling scenario is becoming…

  3. Research moves from the lab to the street 

    April 9, 2015

    Imagine a street dance in which the participants interact not just with their flesh-and-blood counterparts but also with lights and sounds controlled by the dancers’ own movements. That’s what visitors to SummerSalt, an outdoor arts festival in Melbourne, Australia, experienced. The self-choreographed event came courtesy…

  4. Contest promotes automation of machine learning 

    April 8, 2015

    Machine learning is the cornerstone of today’s modern data analysis. The gurus of ā€œbig dataā€ analytics are all well versed in machine learning, but most domain specialists still must hire data scientists to meet their data-analysis needs. It's inevitable, though, that theĀ data-modeling chainĀ will become largely…

  5. Microsoft Azure helps researchers predict traffic jams 

    April 2, 2015

    More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and suburbs, and as just about any of these billions of people can tell you, urban traffic can be a nightmare. Cars stack up bumper-to-bumper, clogging our highways, jangling our nerves, taxing our patience,…

  6. Collaborative research improves search engine speed 

    April 1, 2015

    Have you ever found yourself waiting for results from your Internet search engine? Oh, sure, search for Kim Kardashian and the results come flying back at warp speed. But queries with vague terms are often automatically reformulated into complex queries that may take significantly longer…

  7. Diversity in data science: Microsoft Research’s summer school aims high 

    March 24, 2015

    Data science offers the potential to revolutionize areas as disparate as commerce, healthcare, cybersecurity, and politics. To make progress in these areas, we must also make progress in computer science. Specifically, we at Microsoft Research believe that the best solution to a diverse set of…

  8. Lab of Things enables research and teaching 

    March 17, 2015

    Since its introduction in 2013, the Lab of Things (LoT) has captured the imagination of researchers, who are using this flexible, platform for experimental research that uses connected devices. During the past six months, we’ve updated and added features to the LoT. We’ve also seen…

  9. Dreaming big at SXSWedu 

    March 9, 2015

    I am totally psyched to be here in Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest Education (SXSWedu), a spinoff of the world-famous SXSW festivals of music, interactive, and film. I’m excited not only because it’s a chance to hear some great music and eat some unbelievable…

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