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A spatially localized architecture for fast and modular DNA computing 

Fast and scalable molecular logic circuits can be created through the spatial organization of DNA hairpins on DNA origami scaffolds.

Transportation Data Science at Microsoft 

Microsoft Outreach, through its partnership with the Big Data Hubs organized an Azure workshop and participated in a panel discussion on ‘How Cloud Computing Can Enable Transportation Data Science.’

Watch: A sneak peek inside Microsoft’s AI research labs 

BBC Newsnight’s technology editor David Grossman has been given exclusive access to Microsoft’s AI labs in Seattle to see how the future of Artificial Intelligence is shaping up.

Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi receive 2017 Visionary Award 

The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award for their application of machine learning techniques…

AI’s big leap to tiny devices opens world of possibilities 

Ofer Dekel leads a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers and interns at research labs in Redmond and Bangalore, India, that is developing a new class of machine-learning software and tools to embed artificial…

Listeners Seeing What They Hear: Virtual Reality & 3D Acoustics Integration 

Researchers Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft’s Audio and Research Group, say that an individual interpretation of acoustic reception depends on the bodily motion while listening to sound. Even head movements could vary…

3D sound to let you hear Walking Dead zombies first 

Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark 

Snow leopards are highly endangered animals that inhabit high-altitude steppes and mountainous terrain in Asia and Central Asia. There’s only an estimated 3900-6500 individuals left in the wild. Due the cats’ remote habitat, expansive range…

Researchers use head related transfer functions to personalize audio in mixed and virtual reality 

Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft’s Audio and Acoustics Research Group, explain how they are using head related transfer functions (HRTF) to create an immersive sound environment.

Creating a personalized, immersive audio environment 

The way you hear and interpret the sounds around you changes as you move. That’s how sound in the real world works. Now imagine if it worked that way while you were listening to a…