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In the news | Financial Express
Change the way you live: From AI for farming to HAMS, check transformative technologies from Microsoft
Microsoft India, on Thursday, showcased a wide of range of products that use company’s cloud-based artificial intelligence, cognitive services and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that can change the way citizens, enterprises and governments engage in healthcare services, agricultural…
CodeTalk: Rethinking IDE accessibility
| Suresh Parthasarathy and Gopal Srinivasa
It is a bright afternoon in the Microsoft Research India lab. Research Fellow, Venkatesh Potluri, sits at his computer, frantically racing against the clock to fix one last bug before the end of the day. The computer blares into his…
In the news | The Hindu
Making use of smartphones to ensure road safety
Imagine, if a smartphone could detect when the driver is too tired and yawning, and send an alert to his supervisor. Or, if data transfer could be automatically scheduled in accordance with the strength of the signal, in order to…
In the news | hindustantimes
With self-driving cars a distant dream, here’s how technology is already hitting Indian roads
Hereâs how researchers are using cutting-edge technology to make Indian roads safer and smarter.
In the news | Microsoft News
Microsoft researchers use visual AI to make India’s roads safer
HAMS, which stands for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety, is a virtual harness for vehicles that focusses on two factors that are critical to road safetyâthe state of the driver, and his or her driving relative to other vehicles.
In the news | CNBC
Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
From hacking agriculture to developing inexpensive tools for tuberculosis patients, Microsoft researchers in India are trying to solve myriad social problems in the subcontinent.
Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
By Satish Sangameswaran, Principal Program Manager, and Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science The newspaper headlines about “Bangalore’s looming water crisis” have been ominous, with one urban planning expert proclaiming that Bangalore will become “unlivable” in a few years because of…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
Azure Event Hubs enable such functions as receiving water quality incident alerts from specific locations via a smartphone app.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Transportation Data Science at Microsoft
Microsoft Outreach, through its partnership with the Big Data Hubs organized an Azure workshop and participated in a panel discussion on ‘How Cloud Computing Can Enable Transportation Data Science.’