Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Lex Story
Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice that has supported his pursuit of art and science; and the sabbatical…
Project
AOC
As industries increasingly rely on AI models and complex optimization, computing demands are soaring—just as digital hardware reaches its limits. To meet this challenge, Microsoft Research has developed the Analog Optical Computer (AOC): the world’s first unconventional…
Video
Decoding the Human Brain – A Neurosurgeon’s Experience
Dr. Pascal O. Zinn, MD, PhD, FAANS Dr. Zinn will discuss his experience leveraging state-of-the-art techniques for decoding the human brain during awake surgeries and complex brain tumor removals. Utilizing electrical brain stimulation, electrocorticography (ECoG)…
Podcast
Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth
Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the development of vitrimer-based PCBs that perform comparably to traditional PCBs but have less environmental…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of June 10, 2024
In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.
Podcast
What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in…
Microsoft Research Blog
RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval
RASCAL is an untethered robot with a modular design, allowing it to move flexibly along and between evenly spaced storage shelves. Discover how it can address the availability and scalability challenges of existing automated storage…
