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In the news | International Examiner
Local Scientists Develop Contact Lenses to Help Diabetics
Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.
In the news | The New York Times
A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The wireless signal that the Microsoft group uses to carry multigigabits of data per second between racks isn’t the familiar Wi-Fi of coffee-shop hot spots. That type of signal spreads out over an entire room so that many people can…
In the news | ASweetLife
Information-Rich Eyeballs? Talking to Microsoft’s Desney Tan about the Functional Contact Lens
Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak Parviz and his Bio-Nanotechnology Lab…
In the news | MIT Technology Review
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Researchers show they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought.
In the news | ACM SIGOPS
Best Paper Award in MobiSys 2012
For the paper, ‘ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing.’
Awards | ACM SIGACT
Ravindran Kannan wins Knuth Prize (2011)
Ravindran Kannan wins the Donald E. Knuth Prize (2011) for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is awarded for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time.
In the news | GeekWire
Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW
With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, without…
Top Researchers Inspire Interns
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Each summer, Microsoft Research facilities from around the world welcome a fresh crop of interns. Microsoft Research considers the intern program a vital part of its interactions with the academic world, with some facilities…
In the news | SSTD
Best Paper Award in SSTD 2011
For the paper, ‘FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees.’