By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Microsoft Research recently concluded its eighth annual summer school in Kazan, Russia, challenging students to conceptualize and build new applications from the sensors and devices emerging from the Internet of Things (IoT). “Our summer schools…
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Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research hosted its third annual Data Science Summer School in New York City as a diverse group of undergraduate students deployed some of the latest data crunching techniques on millions of rows of…
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or receive information without looking at…
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The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system. Director of the Polling Institute Dr. Rich Clark and Associate…
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Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.
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Computer programs often reflect the biases of their very human creators, but Microsoft researcher Adam Kalai's latest project â a joint effort with Boston University â has focused on a solution called word embedding.
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia As mobile browsing continues to consume an ever larger share of Internet services, the stakes of improving the mobile user experience have never been greater. That’s one of the reasons that…
By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Pivoting from the Old World charm of High Tea to contemplating a dystopian AI-dominated future was among the many experiences facing more than 80 doctoral students at the PhD Summer School, held July 4–8…