Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices, and cyber-physical systems that expand the possibilities of computing.
CHI ’09: Computing with a Human Touch
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Historically, Microsoft Research has had a big footprint during CHI, the annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest…
Back-of-Device Touch Input
This demo explores how to add pointing input capabilities to very small screen devices. On first sight, touch-screens seem to allow for particular compactness, because they integrate input and screen into the same physical space.…
SSD Extension for DiskSim Simulation Environment
This package extends the DiskSim disk-simulation environment from Carnegie Mellon University to provide limited support for solid-state-disk (SSD) simulation. This is not a simulator for any specific SSD, but rather a simulator for an idealized…
Natural Language Moves In-Car Infotainment Forward
Microsoft Research exposes new natural language technologies that raise the bar for functionality, usability and reliability of in-car infotainment systems.
Low-Power Processors in the Data Center
Microsoft Research Director of Software Architecture Jim Larus demonstrates a prototype datacenter for studying the tradeoffs of low-power processors in the datacenter.
Audio Spatialization
Principal Researcher Zhengyou Zhang talks about improving audioconferencing through the use of audio spatialization at this year’s Microsoft Research TechFest.
