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Microsoft Research Blog
From research idea to research-powered product: behind the scenes with Azure Sphere
At RSA Conference 2018, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere, previewing a unique new solution to help connect and secure the most populous category of computing today: the tens of billions of devices powered by microcontrollers (MCUs).…
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Azure Sphere Predictive Maintenance
See how Microsoft engineers envision new business opportunities and consumer experiences with Azure Sphere. Imagine a day when your washing machine predicts a failure and helps you arrange for a repair before a break down…
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Sparsity-aware Sound Field Capturing / Joint Source and Sensor Placement for Sound Field Control
Two topics are addressed in this talk. Sound field capturing is aimed at interpolating and reconstructing a spatial acoustic filed with multiple microphones, which can be applied to high fidelity audio playback using loudspeakers or…
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Project Zanzibar: Blurring the distinction between the digital and the physical worlds via tangible interaction in a portable implementation
It was a love of toys, a shared appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of physical objects and a recognition of their absence in the daily computer interactions of a world that currently spends most of…
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Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform
Project Zanzibar, a completely new sensing platform in the form of a flexible, portable mat that has the ability to locate, sense and communicate with objects as well as sense a user’s touch. The Project…
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Live 360 Audio and Video Streaming
Demonstration of Live 360 degrees Audio and Video Streaming during Microsoft Research TechFest, as well as at ICASSP and Interspeech conferences. Designed by members of the Audio and Acoustics Research Group and Microsoft Research Hardware…
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2018 EMEA Scholarships to Advance Compelling Research in Healthcare, AI, Future of Work
The Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA awards scholarships to fund the most promising and groundbreaking computer science research by PhD students across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are extremely proud today…
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Central Engineering
The Microsoft Research Redmond Lab’s Central Engineering Team develops software and hardware technologies and components based on Microsoft Research innovations.