Technology for emerging markets
Designing technologies that expand access, opportunity, and digital inclusion in underserved communities around the world.
Project Natick
Project Natick explores the feasibility of subsea datacenters powered by offshore renewable energy.
EduFeed: A Social Feed to Engage Preliterate Children in Educational Activities
Video Figure accompanying the CSCW 2017 paper on the EduFeed system.
The FedEx Problem
Consider the following setting: a customer has a package and is willing to pay up to some value v to ship it, but needs it to be shipped by some deadline d. Given the joint…
If technology has arrived everywhere, why has income diverged?
We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between rich and poor countries have converged while penetration rates, once technologies are adopted, have diverged. The…
Nanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or…