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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

For the paper, ‘ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing.’

Ravindran Kannan wins the Donald E. Knuth Prize (2011) for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is awarded for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended…

Nana technology could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work

With a bit of machine learning, a computer program can analyze the variations in that signal to figure out the particular gesture a person is making — raising the possibility of interaction similar to the…

Steve Hodges and Andrew Fitzgibbon was awarded the ISMAR 2021 Impact Paper Award for the paper they published 10 years ago. It was the second most highly cited ISMAR paper.