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What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra
| Johannes Gehrke and Ranveer Chandra
You may know tech, but how well do you know the people behind the advances? Ranveer Chandra talks about growing up in India, his work in systems and networking, and finding joy in your job in the first episode of…
In the news | Adafruit
Expressive Pixels for Adafruit Matrix Portal
In this guide, you will connect the Expressive Pixels Windows app with an Adafruit Matrix Portal RGB LED matrix panel to: display dazzling animations on the RGB LED matrix, save images directly to the Matrix Portal using its built-in flash…
Art + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway
Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research designer, a “fusionist” and the co-founder of the Artist in Residence program at Microsoft Research. The two,…
In the news | Architect Magazine
Jenny Sabin Studio’s “Ada” Embeds AI in Architecture at Microsoft
To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft’s Research Building 99, just take a look at "Ada." Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at the tech company's campus…
In the news | The Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell Professor Creates AI-Interfaced Photoluminescent Fiber Installation to Facilitate Dialogue Through Technology
In Building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus, Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, unveiled her latest project: an AI interface called Ada that translates people’s facial reactions into color by using a network of a dozen cameras designed to collect people’s…
In the news | Microsoft The AI Blog
Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of…
In the news | Innovation at Microsoft
Fusing Art & Science
This piece explores projects that intersect between Science and Art. The idea here is that Art is the bridge to our humanity and enables us to connect with the Science on a deeper, more emotional level.
Fashion forward: Researchers, designers debut new tech on New York City runway
In his work in visual merchandising, designer Kenroy Tyrell has used LED lights in displays for trade shows and showrooms. But on this particular day, he found himself using the technology in a way he never anticipated—as part of a…
Enabling design with Ann Paradiso
Episode 70, April 3, 2019 - On today’s podcast, Ann tells us all about life in the extreme constraint design lane, explains what a PALS is, and tells us some incredibly entertaining stories about how the eye tracking technology behind…