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In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Water Music: Navigating toward increased independence through Soundscape
Imagine you’re paddling on the lake, you feel the warm sun on your face, listen quietly to the calm ripples of the water. You can hear a sound beacon, in 3D, on the water, just in front of you and…
The future is fusion with Asta Roseway
Episode 44, October 3, 2018 – Asta Roseway gives an inside look at one of the most unconventional labs at Microsoft Research. Located at the intersection of science, technology and art, it’s a lab that insists that technology, like art,…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Skip the hold music and meet Premera Scout, a chatbot that helps you with health care
The Health Bot service empowers health care organizations to build intelligent and compliant virtual health assistants and chatbots that improve processes, outcomes and self-service options, and reduce costs
In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft Azure gets new tools for edge computing and machine learning
The new features include tools to automate the process of building a machine learning model, by helping to identify the most efficient algorithms to make a prediction and optimize the performance of the trained model.
In the news | QE Prize
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Microsoft researchers have been working for more than seven years on Homomorphic Encryption, demonstrating practical applications for cloud privacy and security, and publicly released the SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) in 2015.
In the news | Cnet
Microsoft searches for new ideas in its summer hackathon
Microsoft researcher Asta Roseway and Project Smart Tatoo are featured in this CNET video report.
Faculty Summit 2018 – Advancing the future shape of systems toward a global AI supercomputer
The 19th Microsoft Research Faculty Summit yet again demonstrated its unique place in the world of computer science in gathering thought leaders, state-of-the-art ideas, new products and a sense of the possible under one roof as industry and leading academic…
A brief history of networking (and a bit about the future too) with Dr. Victor Bahl
Episode 37, August 15, 2018 – In our first live podcast, Dr. Bahl shares some fascinating stories from his long and illustrious career, gives us an inside look at what’s new in networking, and, explains why, in an industry where…
A conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
Episode 36, August 8, 2018 – In a wide-ranging interview, Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott shares his insights on both the history and the future of computing, talks about how his impulse to celebrate the extraordinary people “behind the…