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Holograms: The future of near-eye display?
By Andrew Maimone, Researcher; Andreas Georgiou, Researcher; Joel Kollin, Principal Research Hardware Development Engineer Last week at the SCIEN Workshop on Augmented and Mixed Reality, a group of industry and academic researchers met to discuss the future of virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR).…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s Project Emma is a wearable that helps with Parkinson’s tremors
Microsoft has created a watch that the company says can help people with Parkinson’s disease write more clearly. The Emma Watch sends vibrations to the brain that help control hand tremors.
In the news | Microsoft Transform
“My God, it’s better”: Emma can write again thanks to a prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s disease
Haiyan Zhang, a Microsoft researcher, to spend months studying Parkinson’s disease while building and testing prototypes that could, she hoped, temporarily short-circuit the hand tremors, allowing Lawton to write her own name again.
In the news | Beta News
Build 2017: Microsoft’s ‘Project Emma’ is a wearable for Parkinson’s disease sufferers
Today at Build 2017, Microsoft unveiled many cool new technologies, one particular announcement touched the hearts of many. Called ‘Emma,’ it is a wrist wearable that can help people suffering with Parkinson’s disease.
In the news | USA Today
Microsoft shows off watch that quiets Parkinson’s tremors
The watch works through a combination of sensors and AI (artificial intelligence) techniques to potentially detect and monitor symptoms like tremors, stiffness and instability, among others, according to Microsoft.
In the news | TechRadar
From Kinect to InnerEye
No one single technology exists in a vacuum. Microsoft’s Kinect may have suffered an ignoble slide into obscurity following its troubled pairing with the Xbox One. But its underlying principles, technology and the research that went into developing it now…
Awards | The AI Blog
Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of Royal Society
Chris Bishop, a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society was founded in the 1660s to recognize, promote and support excellence in science and…
Awards | British Computer Society
Simon Peyton Jones honored with the 2017 Distinguished Fellowship Award
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell, an advanced, purely functional programming language used by…
From cancer to crop genomics — using Research as a Service at the intersection of computers and biology
By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research, AI and Research Ever since Nicola Bonzanni was a little boy playing in the tiny Italian village of Bonate Sotto, just north of Milan, he was fascinated by nature and by building things.…