Nicolas Villar
Principal Researcher
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Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system
Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
"What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data…
Dans l’actualité | USA Today
Microsoft shows off watch that quiets Parkinson’s tremors
The watch works through a combination of sensors and AI (artificial intelligence) techniques to potentially detect and monitor symptoms like tremors, stiffness and instability, among others, according to Microsoft.
Dans l’actualité | The AI Blog
With Project Torino, Microsoft creates a physical programming language inclusive of visually impaired children
A team of Microsoft researchers and designers in the company's Cambridge, UK, lab has created what they are calling a physical programming language—a way for kids to physically create code by connecting pods together to build programs.
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