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Battling TB Using Microsoft Technology
By Microsoft News Center Giri Prasad, a 33-year-old tailor who lives in Delhi, first noticed the pain below his ribs. He went to see a doctor, but when it didn’t subside, he traveled to the hospital where he eventually learned…
A Simple Way to ‘Poll’ Students
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center In a classroom near Bangalore, India, young students packing a classroom eagerly wave sheets of white paper covered with black symbols. They aren’t misbehaving—they are participating in a test of new educational technology…
Dans l’actualité | International Examiner
Local Scientists Develop Contact Lenses to Help Diabetics
Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.
Dans l’actualité | The New York Times
A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The wireless signal that the Microsoft group uses to carry multigigabits of data per second between racks isn’t the familiar Wi-Fi of coffee-shop hot spots. That type of signal spreads out over an entire room so that many people can…
Dans l’actualité | ASweetLife
Information-Rich Eyeballs? Talking to Microsoft’s Desney Tan about the Functional Contact Lens
Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak Parviz and his Bio-Nanotechnology Lab…
Dans l’actualité | MIT Technology Review
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Researchers show they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought.
Dans l’actualité | ACM SIGOPS
Best Paper Award in MobiSys 2012
For the paper, ‘ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing.’
Prix | ACM SIGACT
Ravindran Kannan wins Knuth Prize (2011)
Ravindran Kannan wins the Donald E. Knuth Prize (2011) for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is awarded for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time.
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW
With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, without…