Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The 2017 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award was presented to Kori Inkpen at Graphics Interface 2017 for her many contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. Throughout her career, Inkpen’s work has focused on the design and…
Microsoft has created a watch that the company says can help people with Parkinson’s disease write more clearly. The Emma Watch sends vibrations to the brain that help control hand tremors.
The Award for Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation was presented to Ranveer Chandra, Principal Researcher at Microsoft for his work helping small farms increase their production and move from sustenance to production using the cloud…
Haiyan Zhang, a Microsoft researcher, to spend months studying Parkinson’s disease while building and testing prototypes that could, she hoped, temporarily short-circuit the hand tremors, allowing Lawton to write her own name again.
Today at Build 2017, Microsoft unveiled many cool new technologies, one particular announcement touched the hearts of many. Called ‘Emma,’ it is a wrist wearable that can help people suffering with Parkinson’s disease.
The watch works through a combination of sensors and AI (artificial intelligence) techniques to potentially detect and monitor symptoms like tremors, stiffness and instability, among others, according to Microsoft.
No one single technology exists in a vacuum. Microsoft’s Kinect may have suffered an ignoble slide into obscurity following its troubled pairing with the Xbox One. But its underlying principles, technology and the research that…
Project Catapult, a longtime research initiative on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), received the ‘Innovation of the year’ award during the ceremony held at the Museum of Pop Culture.
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on…
Technology news website GeekWire named Microsoft’s Project Catapult the Innovation of the Year at its 2017 GeekWire Awards ceremony. The initiative “puts the company at the forefront of field programmable gate arrays, of FPGAs,” according to GeekWire. The…
