In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick. It was the first…
In the news | The Times of India
Microsoft automates driving license tests
Bengaluru: Microsoft is working with the Regional Transport Office (RTO) of Dehradun to automate driving license tests through its system named HAMS (Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety). HAMS was originally conceived as a system to monitor drivers and their driving, with…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Simply unmatched, truly limitless: Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet…
Awards | Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Network Embedding: A Subspace Approach
Best Research Paper Runner-Up Award by CIKM ’19
In the news | The Indian Express
Microsoft provides Indian RTOs with AI software to take driving license tests
Microsoft has stated that its HAMS project enables the driver’s license testing to be an objective and transparent process. Microsoft has announced that its Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) AI project is being used at the Regional Transport Office, Dehradun,…
In the news | TechCrunch
Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoft’s AI project
An AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team, HAMS uses a smartphone's front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.
In the news | ACM SIGOPS
Best Paper Award in ACM SOSP 2019
For the paper, 'Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection â Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing.'
Art + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway
Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research designer, a “fusionist” and the co-founder of the Artist in Residence program at Microsoft Research. The two,…