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In the news | Geekwire
‘The heart of the building’: AI pumps life into architecture at Microsoft through interactive ‘Ada’
Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to “read the room” and become an interactive element reacting to…
Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our center.” What is new is…
In the news | Researcher profile
Researcher profile: Amy Karlson
Researcher Amy Karlson details the history of Project Soundscape and her role doing user research.
In the news | Microsoft Partner Network
NVIDIA and Microsoft partner to accelerate AI through graphics processing units (GPU) powered Azure Solutions
NVIDIA, a graphics technology company, needed to unlock the transformative potential of its GPUs using AI. Partnering with Microsoft, NVIDIA’s AI built a software platform that empowers developers to accelerate and build AI solutions, making AI more accessible for all.…
Awards | ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality
Best Paper, ISMAR 2019 and IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics
In the news | Harvard University IQSS
Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft announce a major collaboration to develop an open data differential privacy platform
Microsoft teams with Harvard to build a platform to ensure data is kept private, while enabling researchers from academia, government, nonprofits, and the private sector to gain new and novel insights that can rapidly advance human knowledge.
Inside AR and VR, a technical tour of the reality spectrum with Dr. Eyal Ofek
Dr. Eyal Ofek is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and his work deals mainly with, well, reality. Augmented and virtual reality, to be precise. A serial entrepreneur before he came to MSR, Dr. Ofek knows a lot about the…
HCI, IR and the search for better search with Dr. Susan Dumais
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been worth it. Situated firmly in…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
How AI in the Exam Room Could Reduce Physician Burnout
Turnaround time for Ambient clinical intelligence to complete reports in the EHR is 50 percent lower than anticipated.