In the news | IEEE Infocom
IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
The highest honor that can be bestowed on a researcher in the INFOCOM community: For work on indoor localization and on exploiting properties of radio frequency signals for goals beyond communications, which still serves as a model for much of…
In the news | ACM
ACM Distinguished Service Award 2019
For significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia,industry, and government agencies.
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Microsoft researchers receive ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award for their paper Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, published in ACM Sensys 2008. Nericell pioneered the use of smartphones as a vehicular…
In the news | Neue Zürcher Zeitung
DNA as storage medium of the future
Die Universität von Washington arbeitet mit Microsoft daran, DNA als Speichermedium der Zukunft zu entwickeln. Rechenzentren könnten auf die Grösse von Spielwürfeln schrumpfen, Daten jahrhundertelang lesbar bleiben.
In the news | Chicago Tribune
Move over Apple Watch, MSI exhibit shows off a tattoo that controls your phone, plus other insane wearable technology
If you thought we had a few years before the world turns into a real-life “Black Mirror” episode, think again. Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry’s latest exhibit, “Wired to Wear,” makes it very clear that the future of fashion…
In the news | Microsoft Tech Community
Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
First published on MSDN on Nov 07, 2018 | Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. These improvements included: batch mode adaptive joins ,…
Giant steps and liberating spaces – Virtual Reality is making cool moves
Cool innovations are happening in how virtual reality researchers are resolving natural locomotion challenges and how they relate to story space, as well as in liberating users from the small, object-free player settings of today, to allow them to safely…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Is Using DNA to Solve Our Impending Data Storage Crisis
The data stored in a warehouse-sized datacenter today would fit into 'a space roughly the size of a few board game dice.'
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage
DNA data storage holds the promise of putting huge amounts of information into a test tube — but who wants to carry test tubes around a data center all day? Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington are working…