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From Hack to Product, Microsoft Empowers People with Eye Control for Windows 10
Sometimes, a simple email can lead to a life-changing breakthrough. In 2014, former NFL player Steve Gleason, who has a neuromuscular disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sent an email to Microsoft, challenging employees at the company’s first hackathon. Steve’s…
Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
By Satish Sangameswaran, Principal Program Manager, and Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science The newspaper headlines about “Bangalore’s looming water crisis” have been ominous, with one urban planning expert proclaiming that Bangalore will become “unlivable” in a few years because of…
Summer Institute unpacks the future of IoT
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Within the next 5 to 10 years, tens of billions of things will be connected to the internet. They’ll monitor rainfall in rain forests and engine performance in airplanes, guide robotic teachers around classrooms…
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Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
Azure Event Hubs enable such functions as receiving water quality incident alerts from specific locations via a smartphone app.
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Storing Data in DNA Brings Nature into the Digital Universe
Over millennia, nature has evolved an incredible information storage medium—DNA. It evolved to store genetic information, blueprints for building proteins, but DNA can be used for many more purposes than just that.
AI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
By Gang Hua, Principal Researcher, Research Manager Recent advances in the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as machine learning are helping everyone, including artistically challenged people such as myself, transform images and videos into creative and shareable works of…
Transfer learning for machine reading comprehension
By Xiaodong He, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for…
Researchers build nanoscale computational circuit boards with DNA
By Microsoft Research Human-engineered systems, from ancient irrigation networks to modern semiconductor circuitry, rely on spatial organization to guide the flow of materials and information. Living cells also use spatial organization to control and accelerate the transmission of molecular signals,…
Genetic Algorithm, in Reverse Mode
| Eugene Bobukh
Today I would like to discuss running genetic algorithm… backwards. Yes, this is possible. Occasionally it is practical, when you need not the best, but the worst solution to a problem. And I think there are more uses for it.…