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Awards | Fast Company
This machine monitors mosquitoes to find—and stop—pandemics before they start
Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Is Trapping Bugs in Robotic Smart Traps to Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they’re looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes bug activity for signs…
In the news | MSPowerUser Blog
Microsoft Premonition will help governments detect biological threats in the environment
Microsoft Premonition was a Microsoft Research project with a goal of scalable monitoring of the environment to detect disease threats early, using robotics and genomics. Microsoft Premonition is a collection of technologies – hardware, software and services that enable biome…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft adds partners to pathogen-tracking Premonition project
During Ignite 2020, Microsoft took the wraps off its efforts to detect pathogens before they cause widespread outbreaks. Applying learnings from Premonition, a five-year epidemiological project spearheaded by Microsoft Healthcare, the company hopes to employ a combination of robotics, cloud…
Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for MSR Redmond where he created…