Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
Safe Autonomous Flight Everywhere
The goal of this project is to build a generalized vehicle-agnostic system that can provide safety guarantees in the face of an uncertain world. We are defining what “safe” means, and building a theoretical framework…
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Faculty Summit 2016 – The BBC micro:bit
The BBC micro:bit is a wearable and programmable device that visibly features a 5×5 LED display, accelerometer, compass, buttons, I/O pins, Micro USB plug, Bluetooth Low Energy antenna, ARM Cortex-M0 processor, and battery plug. The…
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Faculty Summit 2016 – Personalized Computing with Interconnected Wearables
Today’s wearable devices are rapidly shrinking in size. The next frontier of personalized computing is the interaction of these wearables with other proximal devices. Future interconnected wearables will thus exchange information with other ambient devices,…
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Microsoft Research Cambridge Student Experience Day 2016
At Microsoft Research Cambridge we are committed to inspiring and supporting the next generation of computer scientists, and were delighted to be able to offer a one-day exclusive experience to selected students from the UK.
Event
MSR India Summer School 2016 on IoT
The 2016 Summer School is co-organized by Microsoft Research and the Department of Computational & Data Sciences at IISc, and will be held between June 20th – 25th in the area of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT refers to the networking…
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Future workplaces
Technology platforms are emerging as a new kind of workplace: from crowdwork to ‘peer economy’ platforms. This project uses ethnographic methods to address questions such as: Who are the workers on these platforms? What are…