Karin Strauss

2024年12月5日

Our increasingly digitized world is creating more data every year, including videos from ubiquitous smart phones, observations from billions of sensors and surveillance cameras, output from artificial intelligence, and much more. Until now, exponential growth in data storage capacity has…

2022年9月23日

(Linked article in Japanese) Microsoft has launched a research initiative to look at ways of leveraging AI to tackle climate change. Tech giant Microsoft is already well-known as a leading light in the fight against climate change. Its initiatives in…

2022年6月30日

While the US Supreme Court restricts the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb emissions in the United States, Microsoft just launched its Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) collective to "accelerate cutting-edge research and transformative innovation in climate science and technology."

2021年10月27日

Every year for the foreseeable future, Microsoft expects to build 50-100 new data centers to keep up with customer demand. That’s a challenge for a company that has a goal to soon be carbon negative—meaning it sequesters more carbon that…

2020年11月18日

Karin Strauss and many co-authors received the SuperComputing 2020 Test of Time Award for their paper An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. This BlueGene/L project was the top computer on the Top500 supercomputer list for a few years and was…

2020年11月12日

Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which promises to revolutionize the way vital records are kept for the long haul. The founding members of the DNA Data…

2020年6月16日

Karin Strauss, a principal research manager at Microsoft and affiliate professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Allen School professor Luis Ceze, have earned the 2020 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special…

2016年10月19日

A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New Award in the Software category.…

2015年12月3日

The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.