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In the news | MSR Tech Minutes: Future of Haptics in Virtual Reality

MSR Tech Minutes: Future of Haptics in Virtual Reality 

Rendering haptics, or touch-sensing, in virtual reality and mixed reality (VR/MR) is crucial for rich, immersive experiences. Discover what Microsoft researchers believe to be the future of haptics in VR. Presented by Eyal Ofek (Principal Researcher) and Mike Sinclair (Senior…

Awards | ACM – SOSP

Daniel Berger receives SOSP 2021 Best Paper Award 

Daniel Berger’s paper, Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash, was selected as a best paper by the SOSP’21 organizers for its quality and potential impact.

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Microsoft Research Blog

| Ashley Llorens

For 30 years, Microsoft Research has brought together great minds from around the world to take on the biggest research challenges facing society. As we enter our fourth decade, the need for collaborative research—and the opportunities it presents—have never been…

Awards | X-Rings: A Hand-mounted 360 Degree Shape Display for Grasping in Virtual Reality

Best Paper: Honorable Mention Paper, UIST 2021 

In the news | MSPoweruser

Microsoft Research shows off AirConstellations for the Ultimate Flexible Workstation 

Microsoft Research has shown off a new technology which makes it easier to manage and spread your workspace intelligently over a variety of devices.

In the news | Paul G. Allen School News

A snapshot of the future: Computing goes molecular with DNA-based similarity search from University of Washington and Microsoft researchers 

Picture this: You are a researcher in the Molecular Information Systems Lab housed at the Paul G. Allen School. You and your labmates have developed a system for storing and retrieving digital images in synthetic DNA to demonstrate how this…

In the news | Anyscale Blog

Fast AutoML with FLAML + Ray Tune 

FLAML is a lightweight Python library from Microsoft Research that finds accurate machine learning models in an efficient and economical way using cutting edge algorithms designed to be resource-efficient and easily parallelizable. FLAML can also utilize Ray Tune for distributed…

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Microsoft Research Podcast

In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Senior Principal Researcher Siddharth Suri explore the many ways people were impacted by work shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about how race, gender, income, and other factors are indicative of how…

An illustration of resolving a bad merge into a safe merge. Moving from left to right, circles on a continuous line represent code commits in a version control system. A circle labeled “Base” is the most common ancestor of the commits marked A and B, respectively. All three commits pass the project’s quality gates, denoted by green check marks alongside each of these commits. The subsequent merge results in a failure of some quality gate, denoted by a blue circle labeled “Bad merge” with a red x above it. The repair uses machine learning, denoted by an abstract image of a neural network, and program verification and synthesis, denoted by a formal inference rule containing math symbols, to construct a safe merge that passes the quality gate, denoted by a circle outlined in green with a green check mark above it.   
Microsoft Research Blog

| Shuvendu Lahiri

Since the computing world began embracing an open-source approach to programming, building software has become increasingly collaborative. Members of development teams with as few as two developers and as many as thousands are simultaneously editing different components in creating software…