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Preventing side-channels in the cloud
Sophisticated side-channel attacks present new security challenges for cloud providers. Learn how Microsoft is exploring defenses against emerging attacks with principled microarchitectural isolation:
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Project Egypt
Technology to enable widespread availability of greenhouse gas data and insights Greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations have continued to grow, fueling the climate crisis. Yet, measuring GHG emissions efficiently and at scale remains surprisingly elusive due…
Video
Ludic Design for Accessibility
Technology solutions for accessibility have long been created using a narrow utilitarian lens, especially in the Global South due to multi-dimensional challenges and resource constraints—an emphasis on purely functional outcomes supported by sterile cost-benefit analysis…
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Lex Story
Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice that has supported his pursuit of art and science; and the sabbatical…
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AOC
As industries increasingly rely on AI models and complex optimization, computing demands are soaring—just as digital hardware reaches its limits. To meet this challenge, Microsoft Research has developed the Analog Optical Computer (AOC): the world’s first unconventional…
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Decoding the Human Brain – A Neurosurgeon’s Experience
Dr. Pascal O. Zinn, MD, PhD, FAANS Dr. Zinn will discuss his experience leveraging state-of-the-art techniques for decoding the human brain during awake surgeries and complex brain tumor removals. Utilizing electrical brain stimulation, electrocorticography (ECoG)…
