Hardware & devices

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A Low-cost Transparent Electric Field Sensor for 3D Interaction on Mobile Devices

Mathieu Le Goc, Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Cem Keskin

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 | May 2014

Best Paper Honourable Mention Award

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A Case for Specialized Processors for Scale-Out Workloads

Michael Ferdman, Almutaz Adileh, Onur Kocberber, Stavros Volos, Mohammad Alisafaee, Djordje Jevdjic, Cansu Kaynak, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi

IEEE Micro | May 2014, Vol 34(3): pp. 31-42

Publication

RecoFit: Using a Wearable Sensor to Find, Recognize, and Count Repetitive Exercises

Dan Morris, Scott Saponas, Andrew Guillory, Ilya Kelner

CHI ’14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2014

Github Project

Publication

VacuumTouch: Attractive Force Feedback Interface for Haptic Interactive Surface using Air Suction

Taku Hachisu, Masaaki FUKUMOTO

CHI 2014 Conference on Human Factors in Information Systems, pp. 411-420 | April 2014

Video

Printing Interactivity: Customizable 3-D Printing

April 17, 2014 | Steve Hodges, Tim Regan, Lori Stone

Presenting two new technologies that empower consumers to design and produce working physical devices customized to their particular needs: A highly interactive, touch-first 3-D printing app makes 3-D modeling accessible to a broad range of…

Tim Regan standing in front of a television

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Get to know Microsoft Research

April 17, 2014

A quick peek at what’s new at Microsoft Research.

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Publication

Daredevil: Indoor Location Using Sound

Ionut Constandache, Sharad Agarwal, Ivan Tashev, Romit Roy Choudhury

ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) | April 2014

Project

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An efficient design and implementation of LSM-tree based key-value store on open-channel SSD

Peng Wang, Guangyu Sun, Song Jiang, Jian Ouyang, Shiding Lin, Chen Zhang, Jason Cong

Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer Systems | April 2014

Video

LightRing: Always-Available 2D Input on Any Surface

April 13, 2014 | Ken Hinckley, Wolf Kienzle

We present LightRing , a wearable sensor in a ring form factor that senses the 2d location of a fingertip on any surface, independent of orientation or material. The device consists of an infrared proximity…

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Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

April 4, 2014

Gaurav Sharma appeared relaxed but focused in his purple hoodie on January 16, 2014. Less than 20 seconds later, Sharma, a 15-year-old from Lakeside High School in Seattle, found himself the owner of a Guinness…

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu | Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

Inclusive Digital Maker Futures for Children via Physical Computing | Event

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

A Low-cost Transparent Electric Field Sensor for 3D Interaction on Mobile Devices

A Case for Specialized Processors for Scale-Out Workloads

RecoFit: Using a Wearable Sensor to Find, Recognize, and Count Repetitive Exercises

VacuumTouch: Attractive Force Feedback Interface for Haptic Interactive Surface using Air Suction

Printing Interactivity: Customizable 3-D Printing

Get to know Microsoft Research

Daredevil: Indoor Location Using Sound

An efficient design and implementation of LSM-tree based key-value store on open-channel SSD

LightRing: Always-Available 2D Input on Any Surface

Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

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