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Awards | SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl, Mike Sinclair receive SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award
Victor Bahl, Eugene Shih, and Michael J. Sinclair received a SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award (opens in new tab) (2018) for their paper on reducing mobile device battery consumption entitled: “Wake on Wireless: An Event Driven Energy Saving Strategy for Battery Operated Devices,”…
When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
Episode 17, March 28, 2018 – Dr. McDuff talks about why we need computers to understand us, outlines the pros and cons of designing emotionally sentient agents, explains the technology behind CardioLens, a pair of augmented reality glasses that can…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Brainwave makes Bing’s AI over 10 times faster
Microsoft announced today that its use of specialized hardware for AI computation allowed it to get more than 10 times faster performance for a machine learning model that powers functionality of its Bing search engine.
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 | Polygon
Sea of Thieves team put anti-toxicity strategies into gameâs core design
Jerome Hagen, a user researcher at Microsoft, spoke about design strategy at GDC 2018 today in a panel on empowering players and combating multiplayer toxicity.
Brokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam
Episode 15, March 7, 2018 – Dr. Badam discusses the historic trade-offs between volatile and non-volatile memory, shares how software-defined batteries are changing the power-supply landscape, talks about how his research is aiming for the trifecta of speed, cost and…
In the news | AI Business
Data Farming: Building Precision Agriculture With AI, IIoT, and Microsoft FarmBeats
Chandra believes that the FarmBeats system is a unique showcase for how IoT and AI can be used in a challenging scenario to solve some of the worldâs hardest problems.
Awards | Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Mary Czerwinski selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Mary Czerwinski was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (opens in new tab) (APS). Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching,…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft’s focus on transforming healthcare: Intelligent health through AI and the cloud
Working side-by-side with the healthcare industry’s most pioneering players, we are bringing Microsoft’s capabilities in groundbreaking research and product development to help healthcare providers, biotech companies and organizations around the world use artificial intelligence and the cloud to innovate.