Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
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Quantum Computing: the Next Frontier
In 1981, Richard Feynman proposed a device called a “quantum computer” that would take advantage of methods founded on the laws of quantum physics and promise computational speed-ups over classical methods. In the last three…
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Database Systems Exploiting New Hardware Platforms
Main memory databases have become increasingly important as a way to provide high-performance OLTP (on-line transaction processing) capability. By restricting data to by main memory resident, rather than storing disk resident data entirely in the…
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The Beast from Below—How Changes in the Hardware Ecosystem will Disrupt Computer Science
For decades, computer scientists have relied on steadily advancing hardware capabilities. Moore’s Law coupled with Dennard Scaling have improved von Neumann computing by many orders of magnitude. Notably, the underlying changes have been largely invisible…
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Faculty Summit 2013
July 15, 2013, marked the start of Microsoft Research’s fourteenth annual Faculty Summit at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington. More than 400 academic researchers from 200 institutions and 29 countries joined Microsoft Research…
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Towards a Research Platform for Internet of Things (IoT): Complete Session
We are living in a world of connected devices. These devices can take a number of shapes and forms: from tablet computers and smartphones, to sensors in the home, to embedded and wearable computers. Increasingly,…
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InfraStructs: Fabricating Information Inside Physical Objects for Imaging in the Terahertz Region
How can the physical objects of tomorrow be embedded with information? As digital fabrication technologies, such as 3D printing, rapidly scale and expand — how do these objects become readable and interactive in the digital…
