Projects
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This project examines issues around AI FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) and Responsible AI, with a particular focus on how AI systems impact people with disabilities. This includes ensuring that mainstream AI tools are inclusively designed such that they…
Software vendors like Microsoft received a huge number of crash reports every day. Our project tackles the challenges in effectively and efficiently triaging and diagnosing crash reports.
Project Rocket’s goal is to democratize video analytics: build a system for real-time, low-cost, accurate analysis of live videos. This system will work across a geo-distributed hierarchy of intelligent edges and large clouds, with the ultimate goal of making it…
Transitioned | This project enables molecular-level data storage into DNA molecules by leveraging biotechnology advances in synthesizing, manipulating and sequencing DNA to develop archival storage. Microsoft and University of Washington researchers are collaborating to use DNA as a high density,…
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SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data, and provides ease of use for data visualizations, pattern identification, trends, and insights.
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Ambrosia is a programming language independent approach for authoring and deploying highly robust distributed applications. Ambrosia dramatically lowers development and deployment costs and time to market by automatically providing recovery and high availability. Today’s datacenter oriented applications, which include most…
Early in 2016 our team began developing augmented reality (AR) headsets by adding stereo cameras to a virtual reality (VR) system. The user sees the real world through the video feed from the cameras. Synthetic imagery is composited with the…
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We have been exploring a number of ways in which technology can generate a wide range of haptic sensations that may fit within held Virtual Reality controllers, not unlike the ones currently being used by consumers. Enabling users to touch…
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adjective: resilient… able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. The Cyber Resilient Platforms Program (CyReP) is a Microsoft-led industry initiative to improve the security and resiliency of computers, with particular emphasis on cloud-managed IoT devices. The CyReP Program…