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Prix | ACM SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl & Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award
Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology.…
Dans l’actualité | Vice
Making a Big Budget Video Game Is Riskier and Harder Than Ever. So Why Do It?
A breakthrough in sound engineering models how sound moves through any environment in Gears of War 4.
Prix | NormalTouch and TextureTouch: High-fidelity 3D Haptic Shape Rendering on Handheld Virtual Reality Controllers
Best Paper: Honorable Mention, UIST 2016
Prix | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Josh Benaloh receives the 2016 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Josh Benaloh received the 2016 Pioneer Award (opens in new tab) in August 2016 from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for his contribution to the “Keys Under Doormats (opens in new tab)” report. The publication argues against requests from Congress and law enforcement…
Dans l’actualité | Bloomberg
Microsoft Develops AI to Help Cancer Doctors Find the Right Treatments
There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there’s too much to read…
Dans l’actualité | The Economist
Unused TV spectrum and drones could help make smart farms a reality
A new project aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.
Dans l’actualité | ARS Electronica
Project Florence September 2016
Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and natural language processes. Nature has…
Dans l’actualité | Nature
How DNA could store all the world’s data
Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Microsoft Research and MIT unveil DuoSkin, the latest in smart tattoos
Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.