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Simon Peyton Jones appointed chair of National Centre for Computing Education
Simon Peyton Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft and one of Britain’s leading computer scientists, was appointed chair of the Government’s new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), which works to improve the teaching of computer science in schools. He will…
Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
Episode 67, March 13, 2019 – Today, Dr. Phillips talks about the challenges and rewards inherent in reverse engineering biological systems to see how they perform information processing. He also explains what we can learn from stressed out bacteria, and…
In the news | Tages-Anzeiger
Smartglasses will replace the mobile phone
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
With lessons learned from computers, a new platform could help boost production of lifesaving biological therapies
The project, called Station B, aims to develop an end-to-end platform to help scientists more efficiently and predictably channel the power of life’s ultimate information processing machines: living cells.
Researchers build nanoscale distributed DNA computing systems from artificial protocells
Living cells communicate with each other by sending and receiving molecular signals that diffuse between neighboring cells to activate key molecular processes. This communication enables cell populations to implement collective information processing functions that cannot be achieved by individual cells…
In the news | Financial Times
Microsoft moves into biological computing with Station B
Microsoft will make a big move into biotechnology on Tuesday with the launch of a new research system that enables scientists to engineer living cells using machine learning and data analysis.
In the news | ETH Zurich
Man and Machine – Panel discussion at WEF Annual Meeting 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere today – with applications in almost all fields of modern science. From robotics and biology to chemical engineering and healthcare, applying AI positions most scientific fields for progress. What exactly is AI? Are…
Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
Episode 62, February 6, 2019 – Haiyan talks about her unique “brain hack” approach to the human-centered design process, and discusses a wide range of projects, from the connected play experience of Zanzibar, to Fizzyo, which turns laborious breathing exercises…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Launching a new round of projects in the Swiss JRC — Research with impact
January 31, 2019 marked the start of the sixth workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), an innovative and successful collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of…