Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
Video
How does holographic storage work?
This video shows how holographic storage works, using green light to write data as a persistent hologram inside an optical crystal. The data can then be read back from the hologram using another green light…
Project
Project HSD: Holographic Storage Device for the Cloud
Project HSD is a collaboration between Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Azure to re-imagine an old idea – holographic storage – as a cloud-first design. We are capitalizing on the recent exponential improvement and commoditization…
Video
The physics of hologram formation in iron doped lithium niobate
This video shows what is happening inside the lithium niobate media when a data page hologram is written. The Project HSD team at Microsoft Research Cambridge are working in collaboration with Azure, investigating holographic optical…
Video
Ultra-dense data storage and extreme parallelism with electronic-molecular systems
Sustaining growth in storage and computational needs is increasingly challenging. For over a decade, exponentially more information has been produced year after year while data storage solutions are pressed to keep up. Soon, current solutions…
Webinar
Ultra-dense data storage and extreme parallelism with electronic-molecular systems webinar
In this webinar, join Microsoft researcher Karin Strauss in exploring the role of biotechnology and synthetic DNA in reaching this goal. Although we have yet to achieve scalable, general-purpose molecular computation, there are areas of…
Tool
Microsoft Embedded Social Swift Library for Server API
This is a library for interacting with the Microsoft Embedded Social API in your Swift code.
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Microsoft Embedded Social Node.JS Library for Server API
This is a library for interacting with the Microsoft Embedded Social API in your Node.JS code.
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Microsoft Embedded Social Java Library for Server API
This is a library for interacting with the Microsoft Embedded Social API in your Java code.
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Microsoft Embedded Social C# Library for Server API
This is a library for interacting with the Microsoft Embedded Social API in your C# code.
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Microsoft Embedded Social iOS SDK
This is an SDK that works with the Microsoft Embedded Social service to provide social networking functionality inside your iOS application.