Ecology and environment
Project
Food Futures
We believe that the future of food will be supported by the infrastructure of the information age paired with new agricultural movements like aquaponics and urban farming. A world of connected devices, made intelligent and…
Project
Natick
Transitioned | Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide — we designed, built, and deployed our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.
Video
Newton Harrision on Climate Change
The talk will define the work of the Center of the Force Majeure and present three Force Majeure works addressing climate change. 1. Peninsula Europe 2. Saving the West 3. Future Gardens This work is…
Video
Global Education Data on What Drives Student Outcomes
Did you know there are some simple ways to dramatically accelerate individuals and groups learning? Please join us to learn from John Hattie, possibly the world’s most influential education academic. His research on “Visible Learning”…
Project
Project Florence
Project Florence is an artistic representation of a Plant-Human Interface Experience that is built on top of a scientific analysis of the plant and its environment. Paired with the ability to receive human input, the…
Microsoft Research Blog
Researchers team up with Chinese botanists on machine learning, flower-recognition project
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Has this ever happened to you? You’re out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you’re stumped —…
Publication
Protecting Wildlife under Imperfect Observation
Publication