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Project Premonition: bringing researchers together to detect diseases before they become an outbreak
Mosquitoes. They can ruin your backyard barbeque and leave you covered with itchy welts. Or, their bites may also transmit dangerous pathogens. The World Health Organization estimates that mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 1 million people annually. In fact, mosquitoes do more…
Project Permonition aims to create a worldwide system for collection and genomic analysis of mosquitoes, capable of detecting potential pathogens and their geographic spread, before they cause disease in the human population.
アワード | American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Susan Dumais inducted into American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Susan Dumais was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (opens in new tab)—one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious honorary societies, which includes scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions who conduct interdisciplinary, long-term…
ニュース | Splinter
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft approach genetic research and secure DNA data in the cloud
Microsoft is also leading the way on securing the DNA data it gathers. At the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual conference, Kristin Lauter, who heads up Microsoft’s cryptography research, discussed an encryption method she was developing,…
ニュース | TechFest
Be There: 3D Audio Virtual Presence [Video]
Demonstration of spatial audio techniques during TechFest 2015 – Microsoft Research Labs.
アワード | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
George Varghese receives Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay
George Varghese (opens in new tab) received Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (opens in new tab) for his Technology Innovation Excellence.
アワード | AAAI
Eric Horvitz awarded AAAI Feigenbaum Prize
Eric Horvitz was awarded the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Feigenbaum Prize (opens in new tab) for his sustained and high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through the development of computational models of perception, reflection…
ニュース | ComputerWorld
Power up! The hunt is on to extend battery life for mobile devices
While users are certainly relying more heavily on their devices, some observers hold that until battery capacity and efficiency evolve, mobile devices will fall short of being the command center of users’ lives.
ニュース | MAKE
How can we grow a better future?
The Inaugural Biofabricate Summit that took place on December 4th, 2014 was the first event to focus on commercial, artistic and research the disruptive technologies that comprise the emerging field of grown materials.