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Dans l’actualité | KIRO 7
Volunteers needed to improve traffic safety using high-tech
The city of Bellevue is asking for the public’s help to make streets safer using new technology. Bellevue is working with Microsoft and the University of Washington on a cutting-edge effort to help prevent traffic deaths and serious injuries from…
Dans l’actualité | Mobility Lab
Vision Zero video tool analyzes intersections for dangerous traffic conflicts
Volunteers will “teach” the program to better identify people walking and biking. Despite signing onto Vision Zero, a campaign that aims to eliminate traffic-related deaths and serious injuries, Washington, D.C. and other large cities have struggled to make progress in…
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths
The plan is to generate data about crashes and use it to improve roadways and prevent collisions between cars, trucks, bikes and pedestrians.
Prix | ACM SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl & Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award
Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only…
Dans l’actualité | SIGMOBILE
ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2016
RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing interest in exploiting wireless infrastructure…
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Microsoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, testing Minority Report-style predictive intelligence
Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.
Dans l’actualité | New Scientist
Intelligent cameras can put an end to always-on surveillance
Many cities are packed with cameras pointlessly recording everything they see, but smart algorithms could allow them to keep only footage that matters.
Microsoft researchers have developed a way to make wearables last longer
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make wearable gadgets such as fitness trackers and smart watches go much longer between charges. The research project, called WearDrive, is the latest development…
Making mobile phones more useful, and addictive
Posted by Allison Linn Mobile phones and devices have already crossed the line from convenience to necessity, and we will likely grow even more reliant on them in the future. Microsoft researchers are working on a number of ways to…