Hardware & devices
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Learning Models of Language, Action and Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration
Robots can act as a force multiplier for people, whether a robot assisting an astronaut with a repair on the International Space station, a UAV taking flight over our cities, or an autonomous vehicle driving…
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Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs?
Programming language Virtual Machines (VM)s are now widely used, from server applications to web browsers. Published benchmarks regularly show that VMs can optimise programs to the same degree as, and often substantially better than, traditional…
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LiveHardware Development at UCSC
Prof. Renau will present the research effort by his team at University of California, Santa Cruz. The talk focuses in Live ASIC/FPGA flows to improve the productivity of hardware design, and if time permits a…
Podcast
Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 – Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise…
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Azure Machine learning Accelerated by Project Brainwave
Source: Channel 9 | Build 2018 Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 datacenters, and it is growing fast. It delivers the promise of cloud computing, including…
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The Microsoft AI platform: a State of the Union
Source: Channel 9 | Build 2018 Join Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Cloud AI Platform, for a deep dive into the AI platform and exciting AI use cases. Joseph will showcase how every…
Microsoft Research Blog
Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality each has distinct advantages when it comes to bringing digital capabilities into our everyday lives. Everything users see, including the environment and every object can be controlled and changed. This…
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Haptic Controllers: How Microsoft is making virtual reality tangible
Researchers at Microsoft strive to advance perhaps one of the most challenging areas of research and development in virtual reality. Mike Sinclair showcases four haptic controllers and discusses their goal to realize and deliver truly…
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