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Microsoft boffins build better crypto for secure medical data crunching
As genome research - and the genomes themselves - get passed around the scientific community, the world's woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published ways to help scientists work…
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Microsoft Advances Privacy-Enabling ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ For Analyzing Biomedical Data
Microsoft released a 'manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,' which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
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Microsoft Launch SEAL
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have just announced a project called…
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Microsoft helps out healthcare sector with new data encryption algorithm
Previous reports have pointed the finger at the healthcare sector as being woefully unprepared for the modern age of Internet-enabled devices that are always online and present a constant danger to the patient, hospital, and insurer data.
Microsoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for more efficient big data research
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community. The toolkit, available now on GitHub, is designed for distributed machine learning…
Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at…
Ideas blossom for using Microsoft HoloLens
By Dan Fay, Senior Director, Microsoft Research What would you create with a Microsoft HoloLens? Ask a group of gamers and you’ll likely get some cutting-edge suggestions for virtual reality shootouts, but beyond gaming there are many other ways to use…
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction) with the largest influence in an area within multimodal…
Eric Horvitz was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Sustained Accomplishment Award for his long-standing contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and demonstrated vision in shaping the field, pioneered one or more research…