{"id":2893,"date":"2011-01-27T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2011\/01\/27\/microsoft-research-project-hawaii-launches-new-cloud-services\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:34:10","slug":"microsoft-research-project-hawaii-launches-new-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/microsoft-research-project-hawaii-launches-new-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research Project Hawaii Launches New Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/MSDNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.msdn.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/01\/32\/81\/8272.MSRProjectHawaii_v.gif\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/resized-image.ashx\/__size\/160x71\/__key\/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles\/00-00-01-32-81\/8272.MSRProjectHawaii_5F00_v.gif\" alt=\"Microsoft Research Project Hawaii\" title=\"Microsoft Research Project Hawaii\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 0px;\" \/>Innovations in wireless networking technology are driving our increasingly connected world, with smartphones gaining acceptance for both professional and private use. In the future, we foresee a vast majority of smartphone apps relying on cloud services to enhance the mobile experiences. Project Hawaii, a research and academic outreach program by Microsoft Research, envisions the next generation of mobile experiences to rely heavily on cloud services&mdash;with services being a natural extension of the mobile platform. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">New Cloud Services<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today, the Hawaii project team announced the release of two new cloud services: the Relay Service and the Rendezvous Service. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><b>The Hawaii Relay Service<\/b> provides a relay point in the cloud that mobile applications can use to communicate. It provides an endpoint naming scheme and buffering for messages that are sent between endpoints. It also allows for messages to be multicast to multiple endpoints.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>The Hawaii Rendezvous Service<\/b> is a mapping service from well-known human-readable names to endpoints in the Hawaii Relay Service. These names may be used as stable rendezvous points that can be compiled into applications. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the next month, the Hawaii project team will release additional cloud services, prominent among them are the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the Cloud and Speech to Text. We will be talking more about these in the future. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">University Engagement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A key part of Project Hawaii is university engagement. We have partnered with universities worldwide to empower students to develop their own novel cloud-enhanced mobile apps. We provide the tools, services, and equipment that students need to create their mobile apps; students provide the imagination and talent. The Hawaii offering consists of a set of innovative cloud services, and Microsoft&#8217;s newest mobile platform: Windows Phone 7. Project Hawaii participants also have access to both computation and storage in the cloud by using Windows Azure. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the semester that started in August 2010, Project Hawaii was used in a spectrum of mobile computing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with approximately 60 students participating at six schools: Michigan State University, Singapore Management University, University of Arkansas, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Maryland, and University of Michigan. By using a combination of services, students developed cloud-enhanced mobile apps to address a large number of interesting and important scenarios. A sampling of these projects is available at the Project Hawaii <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/hawaii\/applications\/\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">student project webpage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the semester that started in January 2011, Project Hawaii is being offered to 20 universities worldwide. These include Stanford University, Purdue University, Duke University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne, University of Minnesota, University College London, University of California Santa Barbara, and University of Leipzig. For more details, see the Project Hawaii <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/hawaii\/instructors\/\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Learn More<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For more information about Project Hawaii, please see these resources:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/hawaii\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Project Hawaii website<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/Microsoft-Research-Project-Hawaii\/164295863611699?v=wall\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Project Hawaii Facebook page<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/hawaii\/applications\/\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Examples of fall 2010 student projects<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:hiforum@microsoft.com\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Contact us to learn more about Project Hawaii<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&mdash;Arjmand Samuel, Research Program Manager, the External Research division of Microsoft Research<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations in wireless networking technology are driving our increasingly connected world, with smartphones gaining acceptance for both professional and private use. 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