Ecology and environment

Frugal Innovations for Rural Areas – Panel Discussion 

Artificial Intelligence has become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, and this rise in AI applications has stimulated significant interest from the public, media, and policymakers. This increasing attention is often focused on the…

Sustainable Energy Management 

Statistical analyses of multidomain data for the microbiome 

Longitudinal studies using perturbations enable us to study the resilience of the human microbiome. These are particularly informative in the case of antibiotic courses and colonic clean-out. The heterogeneity of the sources of information (time,…

What (and How) Can Linked-View Visualization tell us about the Universe, and Brains? 

Since the time of the ancients, Astronomers have been visual thinkers. It was also a hotbed of “data science” and “open science” before those were cool. This trifecta of visual, data-rich, and open creates unparalleled…

Design Expo 2017: Royal College of Art 

Each year, Microsoft Research sponsors a semester-long class at leading design schools. Students are asked to form interdisciplinary teams of two to four students to design a user experience prototype that solves a real-world problem.…