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Project Trident: Navigating a Sea of Data

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How deep is the ocean? Geologically, the answer is straightforward: almost seven miles. This we know from a series of surveys, beginning in the 19th century, of the depth of the Mariana Trench, near Guam in the North Pacific, a boundary between two tectonic plates that is understood to be the deepest point in the world’s oceans. When it comes to understanding what transpires in the ocean, however,…

July 2009

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Understanding the Rainforest Ecosystem

By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research The Brazilian rainforests are of immense importance to the world. They help regulate climate temperatures, create rainfall, and provide habitat for biodiversity. On the southeast coast of Brazil, the Atlantic Rainforest Sensor Networking Project is attempting to monitor how a small section of the forest is behaving on a minute-by-minute basis. Micrometeorology—the study of atmosphere just above the ground on small time and spatial scales—is critical to understanding how…

May 2010

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Buckled up and ready to go? Untangling airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure

Nobody likes a delay at the airport.  Many of us have spent time buckled up, ready for takeoff, wondering why our plane is stuck on its way between the gate and the runway. Scientists in the United Kingdom are working hard to help untangle these airport operations, to help save fuel, money, and impact on the environment. Cloud computing is empowering the research team to parse the anatomy of these snarls and create a model…

February 2016

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Growables

People Erin Smith Biofabricationist Erin Smith is an artist whose work focuses on themes of sustainability, waste, and the future of fabrication. Her most recent work has involved bacteria, yeast, and fungi as raw materials, and her recent position as an Artist-in-Residence at Microsoft Research enabled continued experimentation with biomaterial fabrication, and further exploration of the aesthetics and possibilities of sustainable biomaterials in our modern world.

SecondLight

Established: July 26, 2010

 SecondLight is a rear projection, optical touch-sensing technology that augments the typical interactions afforded by multi-touch and tangible tabletops with the ability to project and sense both through and beyond the display.    

EarthTones: Chemical Sensing Powders to Detect and Display Environmental Hazards through Color Variation

Established: June 7, 2016

How much harmful exposure do we risk every day from invisible environmental pollutants? Whether we are in our homes, out commuting, or simply enjoying an afternoon stroll, these unseen hazards can often go undetected by humans leading to minor symptoms such as nausea, and even fatal diseases such as cancer under prolonged exposure. For instance, long term exposure to CO can result in respiratory problems, and UV is linked to increased rates of skin cancer.…

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North American Camera Trap Images

May 2019

This data set contains 3.7M camera trap images from five locations across the United States, with species-level labels for 28 species. More information about this data set is available in the associated manuscript: Tabak, M. A., Norouzzadeh, M. S., Wolfson, D. W., Sweeney, S. J., VerCauteren, K. C., Snow, N. P., … & Teton, B.…

Caltech Camera Traps

May 2019

This data set contains 244,497 images from 140 camera locations in the Southwestern United States, with species-level labels for 22 species, and approximately 66,000 bounding box annotations.

Snapshot Serengeti

May 2019

This data set contains 1.2M sequences of camera trap images, totaling 3.2M images. Species-level labels are provided for 48 species. We have also added approximately 100,000 bounding box annotations to approximately 38,000 images. The images and species-level labels are described in more detail in the associated manuscript: Swanson AB, Kosmala M, Lintott CJ, Simpson RJ,…

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Science Computing

Making critical connections between computing and research to help solve data-intensive scientific challenges Earth and environment research Our Earth, Energy, and Environment collaboration projects focus on the development and adoption of technologies for scientific visualization and data management—especially technologies that accelerate insight in the environmental and earth sciences. Researching and developing technologies for scientific visualization and data management to help accelerate insight and advancements in the environmental and earth sciences. Highlights Layerscape WorldWide Telescope Health…

Artist in Residence

Since its inception in 2012, the Microsoft Research Artist in Residence Program has hosted a number of artists in residence, including James George, Jason Salavon, Cristina Sirbu, Erin Smith, Aduen Darriba Frederiks, Helene Steiner, and Maja Petrić. The AIR program seeks to build collaborations between researchers/engineers and artists/designers to create beautiful and innovative experiences that inspire new ways of thinking about existing and future scientific challenges.

Urban Innovation Initiative

Established: November 29, 2018

Researchers working within the Urban Innovation Initiative study and build technology to help shape the future of urban environments. Expertise in design, hardware and software prototyping and deployment, and data analytics, is combined to target three application areas: climate change and related environmental effects on society; productivity and the economic health of cities; social equity and the health of people and their communities. With more than 2 billion additional urban residents projected by 2050, humanity is rapidly…

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AI Centre Postdoctoral Fellow

Type: Post-doc researcher
Lab/Location: Microsoft Research Lab - India
Research Area: Multiple

The AI Centre Postdoctoral Fellow position at Microsoft Research India offers an opportunity for selected candidates to have a hands-on experience in understanding societal problems, identifying feasible solutions, and dealing with challenges in deploying such solutions. Fellows are expected to contribute to various aspects of a project lifecycle spanning ideation, implementation, evaluation, and deployment. Candidates must also be able to collaborate effectively with other researchers, product development teams and external collaborators.

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