Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Video
Ziria: Wireless Programming for Hardware Dummies – Part 2
Software defined radios are a powerful tool for experimenting with wireless PHY and MAC layers. At the same time, they are a challenging programming environment, given tight timing constraints imposed. A student who wants to…
Project
FiberTree
Animated computer graphics are projected onto the base of a fiber optic tree to create a sparse 3D display within the tree. This was done as an entry into Microsoft Research’s MakeFest and demonstrated on…
Video
3-D Audio Demo
Watch a demonstration of 3-D audio for telepresence and virtual reality by Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research.
Event
Faculty Summit 2014
Leading academic researchers and educators joined Microsoft researchers and engineers to explore future technology trends that will define the twenty-first century at the fifteenth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Topics included computing devices and the…
Video
New Hope for People Living with Paralysis (full-length version)
Learn how a multi-disciplinary team uses the Lab of Things as the platform to interconnect wearable sensors like gloves, headbands, and capacitive sensors built into clothing, bed sheets, and wheelchair pads. These sensors capture/monitor subtle…
Microsoft Research Blog
The Code That No One in the Cloud Can Live Without
Posted by Rob Knies A couple of years ago, a few Microsoft researchers published a couple of interesting papers on storage efficiencies. Now, with breathtaking speed, the concepts in those papers have been embraced across…
Publication
A Revolution in the Making
Project
Sparse Reflections Analysis
We present Sparse Reflections Analysis (SRA), an algorithm for removing multipath interference from Time of Flight sensors. SRA allows for very general forms of multipath, including interference with three or more paths, diffuse multipath resulting…