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Welcome to the Digital Preservation of Languages: Microsoft Language Bank

Posted on June 27, 2024by Shelby Healy

The Microsoft Language Bank, an initiative born from the 2022 Microsoft Hackathon, addresses the urgent need to preserve the world’s languages, 40% of which are endangered. Spearheaded by a team of ten in Beijing, the Language Bank employs AI to develop text-to-speech (TTS) technology for underrepresented languages like Inuktitut, Kurmanji, Hakka, and Minnan Chinese. By collecting voice data and innovating….

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Repowering Coal

Posted on May 30, 2024by Shelby Healy

A seed of an idea can become a thriving forest. The Microsoft Global Hackathon, the largest private hackathon on the planet, is coming back again this fall. We’ll be sharing stories of some of the winners in the coming months, and we want to share this one with you. On a typical Tuesday morning, Conor Kelly, a 15-year Microsoft veteran,….

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AI Wings, a Microsoft Garage eco-art installation, takes flight

Posted on October 25, 2023October 25, 2023by Garage Team

The Microsoft Garage Beijing has recently unveiled a new eco-art installation at the Microsoft Beijing campus: AI Wings showcases the fusion of technology and environmental conservation. The installation, co-created by the Microsoft Garage, is made from waste materials such as plastic bags, fabric, and wastepaper, which are cut and assembled into a pair of colorful wings. The wings are then….

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Microsoft Global Hackathon 2022 Winner helps people provide tech support to loved ones

Posted on November 10, 2022September 1, 2023by Meixia Huang

With the abundance of communications and social apps on phones and PCs, keeping in touch with family and friends is as easy as a push of a button. The potential frustration of figuring out which apps to use, encountering error messages or things simply not working as you expect, has grown too. Usually, a family member or friend is called….

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Posted in Garage General, HackathonsTagged hackathon 2022

Coding for the cosmos

Posted on May 11, 2022May 12, 2022by Jacob Block

Microsoft, NASA, and students from two HBCUs in the Reston/DC area have completed the maiden mission of a new Microsoft/NASA partnership, STEM Educational Project: AI looking for new Earths. Using methodology developed by The Microsoft Garage over years of running hackathons, in just one month – and while completing their final exams – the student hackers learned and deployed several….

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Posted in Garage General, HackathonsTagged Azure, hackathon, HBCU, NASA, science, space, students

Forest Guard: Microsoft Student Hackathon winners create rapid-response deforestation sensor

Posted on January 27, 2022January 27, 2022by Jacob Block

Microsoft Student Hackathon Winner, Forest Guard, is an IoT and machine learning tool for illegal logging and forest fire detection. The 2021 Microsoft Student Hackathon – hosted by The Microsoft Garage and run concurrently with the Microsoft Global Hackathon this year – offered Microsoft summer intern 2021 alumni and their friends a chance to hack real-world challenges in a structured….

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Posted in Garage General, HackathonsTagged AI for Earth, hackathon, interns, student hackathon, students, sustainability