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Turning Customer Feedback into Actionable Insights

Ed Essey — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:00:24 +0000

Please join us in celebrating CX Observe Product Feedback Copilot’s induction onto the Garage Wall of Fame. CX Observe Product Feedback Copilot is an AI-driven solution designed to convert large volumes of customer feedback into actionable insights, enabling Microsoft’s product leaders to prioritize roadmaps and maximize customer value. Developed by Amir Banai and Yoav Dobrin during the Microsoft Global Hackathon....

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Robotics for Wildfire Protection and Mitigation

Ed Essey — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:00:42 +0000

Amid this chaos of relentless wildfires in the United States during the summer of 2022, a hacking team in the Microsoft Garage developed a groundbreaking solution: Robotics for Wildfire Protection and Mitigation. The idea originated during Microsoft’s Global Hackathon 2022, inspired by the urgent need for advanced wildfire protection. Through relentless iterations, the team achieved remarkable technical breakthroughs, integrating robots....

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Dream Big, Change the World

Garage Team — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:05:29 +0000

At Microsoft, innovation isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a way of life. Through The Microsoft Garage, employees are given the tools, resources, and freedom to dream big and turn those dreams into reality – and with big impact. It’s a space that empowers employees to apply insights from their day-to-day work, unlock their creativity, and collaborate across Microsoft on....

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Saving the Planet One Hard Drive at a Time

Garage Team — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:43:58 +0000

At the 2022 Microsoft Global Hackathon, Principal Data Scientist Ranganathan Srikanth led the Secure and Sustainable Disposal of Hard Disks project, addressing the environmental and data security challenges posed by data centers. The team developed a robot to disassemble hard drives, enabling the recycling of valuable materials while ensuring data security by destroying sensitive data. This innovation builds on Microsoft’s....

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Welcome to the Digital Preservation of Languages: Microsoft Language Bank

Garage Team — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:34:16 +0000

The Microsoft Language Bank, an initiative born from the 2022 Microsoft Hackathon, addresses the urgent need to preserve the world’s languages, 40% of which are endangered. Spearheaded by a team of ten in Beijing, the Language Bank employs AI to develop text-to-speech (TTS) technology for underrepresented languages like Inuktitut, Kurmanji, Hakka, and Minnan Chinese. By collecting voice data and innovating....

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Repowering Coal

Garage Team — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:05:13 +0000

A seed of an idea can become a thriving forest. The Microsoft Global Hackathon, the largest private hackathon on the planet, is coming back again this fall. We’ll be sharing stories of some of the winners in the coming months, and we want to share this one with you. On a typical Tuesday morning, Conor Kelly, a 15-year Microsoft veteran,....

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AI Wings, a Microsoft Garage eco-art installation, takes flight

Garage Team — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 05:22:00 +0000

The Microsoft Garage Beijing has recently unveiled a new eco-art installation at the Microsoft Beijing campus: AI Wings showcases the fusion of technology and environmental conservation. The installation, co-created by the Microsoft Garage, is made from waste materials such as plastic bags, fabric, and wastepaper, which are cut and assembled into a pair of colorful wings. The wings are then....

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

Garage Team — 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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Coding for the cosmos

Garage Team — Wed, 11 May 2022 17:01:26 +0000

Microsoft, NASA, and students from two HBCUs in the Reston/DC area have completed the maiden mission of a new Microsoft/NASA partnership, STEM Educational Project: AI looking for new Earths. Using methodology developed by The Microsoft Garage over years of running hackathons, in just one month – and while completing their final exams – the student hackers learned and deployed several....

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Forest Guard: Microsoft Student Hackathon winners create rapid-response deforestation sensor

Garage Team — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:12:31 +0000

Microsoft Student Hackathon Winner, Forest Guard, is an IoT and machine learning tool for illegal logging and forest fire detection. The 2021 Microsoft Student Hackathon – hosted by The Microsoft Garage and run concurrently with the Microsoft Global Hackathon this year – offered Microsoft summer intern 2021 alumni and their friends a chance to hack real-world challenges in a structured....

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