Hardware & devices

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An efficient design and implementation of LSM-tree based key-value store on open-channel SSD

Peng Wang, Guangyu Sun, Song Jiang, Jian Ouyang, Shiding Lin, Chen Zhang, Jason Cong

Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer Systems | April 2014

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LightRing: Always-Available 2D Input on Any Surface

April 13, 2014 | Ken Hinckley, Wolf Kienzle

We present LightRing , a wearable sensor in a ring form factor that senses the 2d location of a fingertip on any surface, independent of orientation or material. The device consists of an infrared proximity…

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Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

April 4, 2014

Gaurav Sharma appeared relaxed but focused in his purple hoodie on January 16, 2014. Less than 20 seconds later, Sharma, a 15-year-old from Lakeside High School in Seattle, found himself the owner of a Guinness…

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PrintSense: A Versatile Sensing Technique to Support Multimodal Flexible Surface Interaction

Nan-Wei Gong, Jürgen Steimle, Simon Olberding, Steve Hodges, Nicolas Gillian, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Joseph A. Paradiso

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | April 2014

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Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

Johnathan Hook, Peter Wright, Thomas Nappey, Patrick Olivier, Steve Hodges

CHI 2014 Extended Abstracts | April 2014

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Type-Hover-Swipe in 96 Bytes: A Motion Sensing Mechanical Keyboard

Stuart Taylor, Cem Keskin, Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, John Helmes

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 (Best Paper Award) | April 2014

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Circuit Stickers: Peel-and-Stick Construction of Interactive Electronic Prototypes

Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, Nicholas Chen, Tushar Chugh, Jie Qi, Diana Nowacka, Yoshihiro Kawahara

Proceedings of CHI 2014 | April 2014

Video Video Video Video Project Project

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Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-visitation: A Long Term Field Study of the Photobox

William T. Odom, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, David Kirk, Tim Regan, Mark Selby, Jodi L. Forlizzi, John Zimmerman

Proceedings of the 32Nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2014

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EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger

Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014

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AN3: A Low-Cost, Circuit-Switched Datacenter Network

Eric Chung, Andreas Nowatzyk, Tom Rodeheffer, Chuck Thacker, Fang Yu

MSR-TR-2014-35 | March 2014

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu | Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

Inclusive Digital Maker Futures for Children via Physical Computing | Event

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

An efficient design and implementation of LSM-tree based key-value store on open-channel SSD

LightRing: Always-Available 2D Input on Any Surface

Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

PrintSense: A Versatile Sensing Technique to Support Multimodal Flexible Surface Interaction

Making 3D Printed Objects Interactive Using Wireless Accelerometers

Type-Hover-Swipe in 96 Bytes: A Motion Sensing Mechanical Keyboard

Circuit Stickers: Peel-and-Stick Construction of Interactive Electronic Prototypes

Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-visitation: A Long Term Field Study of the Photobox

EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

AN3: A Low-Cost, Circuit-Switched Datacenter Network

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