Hardware & devices

Event

Latin American Faculty Summit 2014

May 7, 2014 – May 9, 2014 | Viña del Mar, Chile

Microsoft Research hosted the ninth annual Latin American Faculty Summit in Viña del Mar, Chile, May 7 to 9, 2014. The theme of the 2014 summit was Advancing Science and Technology Through Computing Research.

Publication

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

Project

Publication

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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Video

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

Publication

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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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

Latin American Faculty Summit 2014

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

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