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In the news | Engadget
Microsoft’s Project HSD is all about holographic storage for the cloud
It’s possible thanks to modern smartphone cameras. Microsoft is looking beyond flash storage and hard drives to handle the seemingly unstoppable demand for cloud storage. Yesterday at its Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSD (via ZDNet (opens in new tab)), a new…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft: Here’s how smartphone camera tech helps create this new holographic storage
Project Holographic Storage Device works on new holographic storage device for ‘warm’ data in the cloud. Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale data that has a potential…
Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit: Democratizing medical imaging AI
| Javier Alvarez-Valle and Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD
For over a decade, the Project InnerEye team at Microsoft Research Cambridge has been developing state-of-the-art machine learning methods for the automatic, quantitative analysis of three-dimensional medical images. An important application is to assist clinicians for image preparation and planning…
In search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
| Benn Thomsen, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Ant Rowstron
Data storage has always been a key tenet of compute, and with the massive growth in cloud compute, the demand for cloud data storage has opened an avenue for both revisiting prior technologies and developing new ones. It is projected…
Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering
Ant Rowstron Named Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fifty-three leading engineers from the UK and around the world have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession. They join an Academy on a mission to…
In the news | SlashGear
Microsoft Research holographic storage could be the cloud’s future
In addition to living in a digital age, our lives have also started to revolve around clouds, that is, cloud storage and services. This elusive and ephemeral concept, however, still needs to be tethered to physical realities and limited by…
Awards | HTN Awards 2020
InnerEye finalists in HTN Awards 2020 for Best Health Tech Solution of the Year and Best use of AI
The HTN Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions, celebrate great technology, partnerships, teams and innovations making a difference across health and care. HTN is delighted to announce the finalists in the Awards and congratulations to all involved. On this webpage…
In the news | Addenbrooke's Hospital News
Hancock’s high-tech visit
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times. Consultant oncologist Dr Raj Jena has been working with Microsoft Research for the past eight years on a machine learning…
ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more
With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020) (opens in new tab), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft researchers are in full summer swing when it comes…