Technology for Emerging Markets
Project
Natick
Transitioned | Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide — we designed, built, and deployed our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.
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EduFeed: A Social Feed to Engage Preliterate Children in Educational Activities
Video Figure accompanying the CSCW 2017 paper on the EduFeed system.
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The FedEx Problem
Consider the following setting: a customer has a package and is willing to pay up to some value v to ship it, but needs it to be shipped by some deadline d. Given the joint…
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If technology has arrived everywhere, why has income diverged?
We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between rich and poor countries have converged while penetration rates, once technologies are adopted, have diverged. The…
Microsoft Research Blog
Nanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or…
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Ultrasound-Based Gesture Recognition
Sensing technologies have been steadily gaining popularity since they can provide useful and complementary data in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) algorithms. In this study, we explore the feasibility of using ultrasonic imaging to recognize hand…
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99DOTS
99DOTS is a technology-enabled project focusing on medication adherence for anti-Tuberculosis drugs. Treatment programs wrap each anti-TB blister pack in a custom envelope, which hides phone numbers behind the medication. Patients can only see these…