In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft: Here’s how smartphone camera tech helps create this new holographic storage
Project Holographic Storage Device works on new holographic storage device for 'warm' data in the cloud. Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale data that has a potential…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued.…
Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit: Democratizing medical imaging AI
| Javier Alvarez-Valle and Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD
For over a decade, the Project InnerEye team at Microsoft Research Cambridge has been developing state-of-the-art machine learning methods for the automatic, quantitative analysis of three-dimensional medical images. An important application is to assist clinicians for image preparation and planning…
In search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
| Benn Thomsen, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Ant Rowstron
Data storage has always been a key tenet of compute, and with the massive growth in cloud compute, the demand for cloud data storage has opened an avenue for both revisiting prior technologies and developing new ones. It is projected…
In the news | MSPowerUser Blog
Microsoft Premonition will help governments detect biological threats in the environment
Microsoft Premonition was a Microsoft Research project with a goal of scalable monitoring of the environment to detect disease threats early, using robotics and genomics. Microsoft Premonition is a collection of technologies – hardware, software and services that enable biome…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system
Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.
Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering
Ant Rowstron Named Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fifty-three leading engineers from the UK and around the world have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession. They join an Academy on a mission to…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft launches Premonition, its hardware and software platform for detecting biological threats
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for analyzing samples, will soon be in private preview.
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft is partnering to reimagine tomorrow
At Microsoft Ignite, we announced Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. (opens in new tab) will be generally available on October 30, 2020. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is how Microsoft and our partner ecosystem helps healthcare organizations reimagine tomorrow. You can read more about…