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In the news | The Guardian
‘It’s going to create a revolution’: how AI is transforming the NHS
The tumour is hard to miss on the scan. The size of a golf ball, it sits bold and white on the brain stem, a part of the organ that sends messages back and forth between body and brain. In…
In the news | Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP on InnerEye in the NHS
All around us, a new generation of technology is changing all of our lives. From the mundane but useful, like the ubiquity of satnavs that stop family arguments and warn us of traffic jams, to the profound and extraordinary, like…
In the news | Kidscreen
Microsoft brings toys to life in Project Zanzibar‘
Developed by a team of Microsoft researchers, the new user interface features a flexible mat that can locate, sense and communicate with objects–and may just give a much-needed jolt to a struggling toys-to-life market.
Project Zanzibar: Blurring the distinction between the digital and the physical worlds via tangible interaction in a portable implementation
It was a love of toys, a shared appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of physical objects and a recognition of their absence in the daily computer interactions of a world that currently spends most of its time gazing at and…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s smart mat project could blend Lego and Minecraft together
A team of researchers, with a love of toys, created the project at Microsoft’s research labs in the UK. The mat folds and combines sensing, near field communication (NFC), and multi-touch to imagine a future where you could place objects…
In the news | Slashgear
Microsoft’s Project Zanzibar could do for toys what multitouch did for smartphones
Microsoft has detailed Project Zanzibar, a research effort involving the development of a smart mat that takes physical toys and presents them on a display, combining real-world and digital play into a single experience.
Microsoft and Tsinghua University Work Together on Open Academic Data Research
In a recent collaboration, Microsoft and China’s Tsinghua University released an academic graph, named Open Academic Graph (OAG). This billion-scale academic graph integrates the current Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) and Tsinghua’s AMiner academic graph. Specifically, it contains the metadata information…
In the news | Terarecon
Terarecon demonstrates Project InnerEye Radiomics Powered by EnvoyAI
TeraRecon has set up a technical demonstration with Project InnerEye, a Microsoft research project, to illustrate the use of the Project InnerEye‘s segmentation technology through the EnvoyAI™ platform. The demonstration of the workflow integration will be on display at the…
Machine Learning and the InnerEye for Cancer Treatment with Dr. Antonio Criminisi
Episode 13, February 21, 2018 – Today, Dr. Criminisi talks about Project InnerEye, an innovative machine learning tool that helps radiologists identify and analyze 3-D images of cancerous tumors. He also gives us some insight into his work on deep…