NERD Archives | Microsoft Garage http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/tag/nerd/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Interactive art: Public Radio built in The Garage by Boston design studio http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/04/interactive-art-public-radio/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:35:32 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=6891 Standing 10 feet tall, elegantly sloped along its front face with the soft light of rainbow LEDs glowing behind half inch of frosted acrylic, “Public Radio” is a unique art installation you’ll find at District Hall’s outdoor plaza in the Seaport, Boston’s home for innovation. Turn the metal-rimmed dials to tune to a different station as the corresponding LEDs light....

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]]> Garage Externs from MIT collaborate with The Met to spark global connections to art using AI http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/02/garage-externs-from-mit-partner-with-the-met/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:30:22 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=6690 To help celebrate the second anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program, The Met teamed up with Microsoft engineers and MIT students and faculty to imagine new ways in which their encyclopedic collection could be explored by global audiences. Chris Hoder speaking at December 2018 hackathon with The Met, MIT, and Microsoft The collaboration started with a....

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]]> Microsoft New England teams up with customers to create high-impact product features http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2018/10/microsoft-new-england-teams-up-with-customers/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:00:37 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=6078 Microsoft Garage has been a force in affecting positive change within the company, practicing new ways of thinking and spreading a growth mindset culture to employees as well as partners outside the company. Microsoft’s global Hackathon is a key player in CEO Satya Nadella’s culture change priorities driving innovations that empower customers to achieve more. The Garage at NERD, located....

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]]> The napkin disrupted: meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage project http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2018/01/napkin-disrupted-meet-ink-code-microsoft-garage-project/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:26 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=4400 Urban legend has it that some of the greatest ideas in history started with a napkin. The Gettysburg Address, the poem that gave way to the U.S. National Anthem, and the premise of the Harry Potter series—each were reportedly born into the world through the medium of sketches on scrap paper—and when app creators put pen to paper for their....

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