Ecology and environment
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Real-time Air Quality Monitoring Network Using Low-Cost Devices
India has the dubious distinction of having 10 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. The number of government air quality monitoring stations in these cities, baring New Delhi (which has 12),…
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Achieving Household Energy Breakdown at Scale
Energy breakdown: the process of breaking down a home’s energy consumption into constituent appliances, is considered an important step towards energy saving in the residential setting. Most current energy breakdown techniques exploit IoT hardware to…
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Cultivating the Long tail of Environmental Observations
CLEO (Cultivating the Long tail of Environmental Observations) is a collaborative project between the Sensing and Energy Research Group at MSR and the E3 group at MCR Connections. It relies on the processing power of…
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Preventing flood disasters with Cortana Intelligence Suite
By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for…
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Securing safe water through Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud
By Kenji Takeda, Solution Architect and Technical Manager, Microsoft Research Jacob Katuva used to get up at dawn to cycle 12 miles from his village to collect water with his uncles and cousins when he…
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Expeditions: Exploring the unknown
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Think Bolder, Aim Higher” is a mantra I’ve been chanting since my arrival at Microsoft three years…
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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…
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WorldWide Telescope finds a new home at the American Astronomical Society
By Jonathan Fay, Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research Founded in 2007, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) began as a “dream project” for Jim Gray, Curtis Wong, and myself. In July 2015, WWT was classified as an…
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2016 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Projects Announced
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)…