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As data grows, so does the need to store it. Microsoft’s Project Silica is offering an archive alternative to tape with the promise of permanence.

Our increasingly digitized world is creating more data every year, including videos from ubiquitous smart phones, observations from billions of sensors and surveillance cameras, output from artificial intelligence, and much more. Until now, exponential growth…

Magentic-One is a new generalist multi-agent system developed by Microsoft Research, designed to handle open-ended tasks based on web and file information across various domains. This essay will examine the architecture of Magentic-One, its capabilities,…

ArrayTrack: A Fine-Grained Indoor Location System (USENIX NSDI, 2013) introduced a pioneering approach to RF-based indoor localization and wireless sensing by leveraging phase-array-based signal processing. Moving beyond traditional wireless signal strength measurements, it utilized multiple…

Microsoft Research India plans to expand its Shiksha Copilot, aimed at improving learning outcomes with engaging content, with multimodal, multilingual and multi-device dimensions to help teachers with vision impairments create lesson plans. “The possibilities for…

Microsoft unveiled Aurora in June, an AI model that draws on atmospheric data. The company said in a blog post introducing the model that a team of researchers developed it to forecast in the most…

CosMAC won the Best Community Paper Award at ACM MobiCom 2024!

An agent can tackle certain tasks with you or for you, from acting as a virtual project manager to handling more complex assignments like reconciling financial statements to close the books. Microsoft 365 Copilot is…