Visible and controllable RFID tags
FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos
Battery Research at Microsoft
Mobile & Internet of Things (IoT) devices, along with other battery operated devices, are energy constrained. While hardware capabilities have increased tremendously over the last ten years, battery energy density has only doubled. In this…
Chuck Thacker Attains Computing’s Peak
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research When Chuck Thacker graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1967, he envisioned a career as an engineering physicist, designing particle…
The Translating Telephone
Our goal in the telephone-call scenario is to provide an aid for cross-language communication in the event that no other means of communication exists. The system makes extensive use of speaker-adaptation technologies to achieve reasonable,…