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Windows Server 8 – along with the suite of associated 2012-ish server applications – is nothing short of a complete redefinition of the server landscape.

It sounds like the ultimate vanity project, but a camera that records your every moment could make you happier and healthier.

Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.

Keynote by Ivan Tashev from Microsoft Research at ITA 2012 on Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics

For contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards.

The wireless signal that the Microsoft group uses to carry multigigabits of data per second between racks isn’t the familiar Wi-Fi of coffee-shop hot spots. That type of signal spreads out over an entire room…

Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak…

Researchers show they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought.

We’ve heard of experimental contact lenses that can non-invasively monitor the blood sugar levels of diabetes sufferers before, but where prior research relied on chemical reactions inducing color-change in the lens, new joint research by…

Henrique S. Malvar was inducted as a Section 2: Engineering and Technology member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2012. Field(s) of Expertise: Signal processing, enhancement/compression, decompositions, coding theory