In the news | Asia News Center
Indoor vertical farming in Asia and beyond: Digging deep in data
When it comes to farming, Ken Tran digs deep – not in dirt, but in data. He doesn’t drive a tractor and he doesn’t pull a plow. But he is helping to sow the seeds of a new type of…
Machine Learning and the InnerEye for Cancer Treatment with Dr. Antonio Criminisi
Episode 13, February 21, 2018 - Today, Dr. Criminisi talks about Project InnerEye, an innovative machine learning tool that helps radiologists identify and analyze 3-D images of cancerous tumors. He also gives us some insight into his work on deep…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft’s DNA storage breakthrough could pave way for exabyte drives
The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come closer to reality thanks to a new technique for retrieving data.
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Microsoft joins Be My Eyes app to provide tech support to Blind and Low Vision customers
For 900,000 people across 150 countries, the Be My Eyes app and its hundreds of thousands of sighted volunteers help people who are Blind or Low Vision do tasks, like cooking, or helping them find something they lost, reading a…
In the news | Phys.org
Researchers achieve random access in large-scale DNA data storage
University of Washington and Microsoft researchers revealed today that they have taken a significant step forward in their quest to develop a DNA-based storage system for digital data.
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…