Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Video
Ludic Design for Accessibility
Technology solutions for accessibility have long been created using a narrow utilitarian lens, especially in the Global South due to multi-dimensional challenges and resource constraints—an emphasis on purely functional outcomes supported by sterile cost-benefit analysis…
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Lex Story
Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice that has supported his pursuit of art and science; and the sabbatical…
Project
AOC
Project AOC is building an analog optical computer that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x. To achieve this, we rely on a physical system to embody the computations…
Video
Decoding the Human Brain – A Neurosurgeon’s Experience
Dr. Pascal O. Zinn, MD, PhD, FAANS Dr. Zinn will discuss his experience leveraging state-of-the-art techniques for decoding the human brain during awake surgeries and complex brain tumor removals. Utilizing electrical brain stimulation, electrocorticography (ECoG)…
Podcast
Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth
Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the development of vitrimer-based PCBs that perform comparably to traditional PCBs but have less environmental…
Event
Inclusive Digital Maker Futures Workshop
Host conference: 23rd ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (opens in new tab) June 17-20, 2024 This workshop will bring together researchers and educators to imagine a future of low-cost, widely available digital making for children,…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of June 10, 2024
In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in…
