Worldwide, an estimated 360 million people are deaf or hard of hearing. Because the majority of hearing individuals do not understand sign language, people who are deaf often have difficulties interacting with the hearing. ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 1, 2013
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Pioneering work using touchless technology for vascular surgery is now being extended to neurosurgery.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 30, 2014
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Data can be daunting. But within those numbers and spreadsheets is a wealth of information. There are also stories that the data can tell, if you're able to see them. SandDance, a new Microsoft Garage project from Microsoft ...
Software
Mar 23, 2016
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(Phys.org) —Researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Tokyo and Microsoft Research have developed a novel method to rapidly and cheaply make electrical circuits by printing them with commodity inkjet printers and ...
Engineering
Nov 6, 2013
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"The way we design computers today," Microsoft researcher Hong Tan says, "it would seem that people only use their eyes."
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 6, 2014
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Computer chips have stopped getting faster: The regular performance improvements we've come to expect are now the result of chipmakers' adding more cores, or processing units, to their chips, rather than increasing their ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 24, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of scientists, led by ecologist Lucas Joppa of Microsoft Research, has published a commentary piece in the journal Science, highlighting what they say is a growing problem in research efforts. They suggest ...
A special issue of Big Data presents a series of insightful articles that focus on Big Data and Social and Technical Trade-Offs. Despite the dramatic growth in big data affecting many areas of research, industry, and society, ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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Most consumers have experienced online ads so garish, loud, or aggravating that they can't possibly be ignored. But a new study in the Journal of Marketing Research suggests that this way of forcing customer's attention may ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2014
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Sitting in his office overlooking downtown Bellevue, Washington, Microsoft's Fil Alleva is talking about the long and sometimes difficult road he and other speech recognition experts have taken from the early work of the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 4, 2015
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