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Microsoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
| Michel Pahud, Mike Sinclair, and Andrea Bianchi
Editor’s Note: Bimanual controllers are frequently used to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual reality experiences such as games and simulations. Researchers have typically relied on mechanical linkages between the controllers to recreate the sensation of holding different objects…
Awards | Fast Company
This machine monitors mosquitoes to find—and stop—pandemics before they start
Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.
EverParse: Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
| Tahina Ramananandro, Aseem Rastogi, and Nikhil Swamy
EverParse (opens in new tab) is a framework for generating provably secure parsers and formatters used to improve the security of critical code bases at Microsoft. EverParse is developed as part of Project Everest (opens in new tab), a collaboration…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
Learning visuomotor policies for autonomous systems from event-based cameras
| Sai Vemprala
Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Sai Vemprala, Senior Researcher, and Ashish Kapoor, Partner Researcher, of Microsoft Research along with Sami Mian (opens in new tab), who was a PhD Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and an intern…
Awards | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch receive USENIX 2021 Test of Time Award
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch received the USENIX Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) at FAST 2021 (opens in new tab). The award recognizes their paper from 2007, A five-year study of file-system metadata, which has…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft Teams could use AI to analyze people’s expressions during video meetings
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive…
Awards | IEEE
3 Microsoft researchers elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2021
Steve Hodges, Ivan Tashev and Tom Zimmermann were elevated to the level of IEEE Fellow for 2021. The accomplishments that are being honored are a result of important contributions that led to the advancement or application of engineering, science and…
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li
Under now-standard techniques, such as over-parameterization, batch-normalization, and adding residual links, “modern age” neural network training—at least for image classification tasks and many others—is usually quite stable. Using standard neural network architectures and training algorithms (typically SGD with momentum), the…