With its unique hemispheres and intricate connections, the brain is one of the most exceptional, yet complex organs in the human body. The intricate structure has posed a unique challenge for generations of students looking to understand and ultimately master how its many parts fit, and work, together. But this fall — thanks to Microsoft HoloLens and mixed reality technology—….
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Last week, I received some of the best news of my life. And the news came at a pretty exciting time. I received the phone call half an hour before the closing ceremony of Microsoft’s 2017 Hackathon, an event that my team puts on. For the Microsoft Garage, a team helping change the way the company works 52 weeks of….
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What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence. Organizers say the four-day event, which has become the world’s biggest private hackathon with more than 18,000 employee participants, provides….
Sports Performance Platform, a Microsoft Garage project, announces an invitation-only experiment for teams and athletes. Sign up to express interest in participating. Meet the newest project to join the Garage portfolio: Sports Performance Platform. A project built on Power BI, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Surface technology, Sports Performance Platform has an ambitious mission to drive the shift in the sports industry….
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Almost a year after its initial launch, Personal Shopping Assistant, a Microsoft Garage project, is adding features and expanding its smart shopping technology to new platforms with an Anniversary Update. Since June 2016, thousands of people around the world have used the assistant to shop smarter, leading the team to expand, iterate, and further invest in the project. The Anniversary….
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Many Excel users can relate to the problem of data wrangling. You start with an input data set that you wish to transform into a new format so that you can perform further analysis using the transformed data. Not surprisingly, these problems arise for common types of data such as date and time, addresses, phone numbers, URLs. For example, consider….
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