RAVEN: Reducing Power Consumption of Mobile Games without Compromising User Experience
| Miran Lee and Yunxin Liu
In the last decade, mobile gaming has grown into a huge industry. According to Newzoo, the global mobile games market will reach $46.1 billion in 2017, a 19.4% increase from the year before. Players can enjoy amazing gaming experience on…
In the news | GeekWire
DNA data storage system rises past 400 megabytes – find out how to store yours
Text files as well audio, images and a high-definition music video featuring the band OK Go were first digitally encoded, and then converted into chemical coding—that is, adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine, which make up the ATCG alphabet for DNA…
In the news | Ars Technica
Inching closer to a DNA-based file system
Researchers have figured out how to add something like a filesystem to DNA storage, allowing random access to specific data within a large collection of DNA. While doing this, the team also tested a recently developed method for sequencing DNA…
In the video below, our colleague Darrin tells a personal story of unleashing the power of semantic search: Let’s look at a few more examples of powerful search experiences that are unique to Microsoft Academic. Imagine you met a…
Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
| Meredith Ringel Morris
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce.…
Code in the Classroom with Dr. Peli de Halleux
Episode 12, February 15th, 2018 - If you’ve ever wondered if you could find the perfect combination of computer scientist… and Macgyver, look no further than Dr. Peli de Halleux, principal Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research. A key…
I Chose STEM – Event Recap
| Jessica Mastronardi
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and research community stakeholders joined Microsoft…
In the news | Franzis Kuskiefer Blog
The HACL* approach
HACL* (High-Assurance Cryptographic Library) is a formally verified cryptographic library in F*, developed by the Prosecco team at INRIA Paris in collaboration with Microsoft Research, as part of Project Everest. HACL* was inspired by discussions at the HACS workshop and…
In the news | Microsoft Azure
Microsoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science breakthroughs
Microsoft has provided 17 cloud credit awards to Principal Investigators who benefit from NSF supported programs, which already seeing some interesting breakthroughs across the human body, microbial diseases, and even everyday communication.