Meixia Huang, Author at Microsoft Garage

Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022 Winner helps people provide tech support to loved ones

Meixia Huang — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:28:04 +0000

With the abundance of communications and social apps on phones and PCs, keeping in touch with family and friends is as easy as a push of a button. The potential frustration of figuring out which apps to use, encountering error messages or things simply not working as you expect, has grown too. Usually, a family member or friend is called....

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Microsoft Garage opens in Atlanta as a hub for tech talent and community growth driving innovation and inspiration

Meixia Huang — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:57:03 +0000

The Microsoft Garage celebrates a new location at Microsoft’s Atlantic Yards campus to drive experimentation, innovation, and inspiration at Microsoft and in the vibrant city of Atlanta. Atlanta’s skilled workforce is driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, providing an ideal landscape for international and local enterprises to establish a presence and open business. Atlanta has the third largest concentration of Fortune....

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The Garage celebrates new locations in East and West Africa

Meixia Huang — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:56:06 +0000

The Microsoft Garage celebrated the opening of new locations in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria, as part of the growth of the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC). “These new Garage locations are the culmination of several years of planning with the ADC,” says Jeff Ramos, GM of the Microsoft Garage. “We are pleased to bring to life our commitment to....

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Room to Dream: How the Microsoft Garage is hacking creative culture on a global scale

Meixia Huang — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:03:50 +0000

In celebration of the annual Microsoft Hackathon, discover how the Microsoft Garage is hacking creative culture on a global scale. Take a closer look at six of the twelve Garage locations across the world (Dublin, Atlanta, New York, Israel, India, and Nigeria) and how each is collaborating across borders to drive innovation for Microsoft and its customers. Learn about the....

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Microsoft Garage partners with Air Force Officer to grow employee-led innovation

Meixia Huang — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:07:20 +0000

At Microsoft, employees are trying new things and embracing lessons from success – and failure. They’re seeking out diverse perspectives in a culture that practices a growth mindset. The annual company-wide Microsoft Global Hackathon, produced by The Garage, is a big part of that culture. The Garage was honored to work with Major Ryan “Merlin” Middleton of the U.S. Air....

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A new digital assistant for your browser with Stay Current, a Microsoft Garage project

Meixia Huang — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:06:36 +0000

We view the browser as a “window to the world”. As we browse online, we have access to all kinds of resources and information. There are some tasks we do every day that are monotonous and can very much be automated. With Stay Current, our mission is to transfer the power to automate to the people with relatively little effort—users....

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Introducing the Microsoft Garage Gallery “Spirit of Being” exhibit with multidisciplinary artists

Meixia Huang — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:05:28 +0000

New York City has always been home to artists and creative minds who push the boundaries of art, technology, and storytelling. The newly built Microsoft Garage facility in Lower Manhattan is one of many exciting places where The Garage is establishing programs to fuel innovation both within and outside the company. Part of The Garage space in NYC hosts an....

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Making Smart Cities: The power of hackathons brings together Rogers, UBC students, City of Kelowna, and Microsoft to advance 5G smart city applications

Meixia Huang — Mon, 17 May 2021 15:02:47 +0000

The convergence of industry, public service, enterprise, and academia occurred in January 2020 when Rogers reached out to Microsoft to discuss a potential collaboration with UBC that would showcase the capability of 5G networks when paired with Azure Edge Compute technology. The plan was to get a group of the most creative computer science and electrical engineering students from UBC....

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Enter the world of quantum with new Microsoft Garage project, Reference Guide for Quantum Computing

Meixia Huang — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:08:23 +0000

Microsoft Garage, in association with a few of the greatest minds of the Microsoft ecosystem, presents a Reference Guide for Quantum Computing, a book that can be a catalyst in your journey of learning Quantum Computing. It will take you on an intellectual adventure from understanding what a qubit is, how to manipulate its value, to building quantum algorithms. It....

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Microsoft Hackathon 2020 Grand Prize Winner: Customizable digital assistant

Meixia Huang — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:47:40 +0000

What if you could train a digital assistant on what was important to you and teach it to do tasks, like look up today’s pollen count, book the next open local campsite, or alert you when an item goes on sale? The grand prize winning team of Microsoft Hackathon 2020 did just that with their customizable digital assistant project, built....

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