Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond
Projects
Web search is an important modern literacy skill, necessary for fully participating in many aspects of society including education, employment, commerce, and entertainment. However, web search is particularly challenging for people with print disabilities, such as visual or cognitive impairments.…
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This project considers how to design emerging Mixed Reality technologies (including AR and VR) so that they are usable by and useful to people of all abilities. Too often, the accessibility of technology to people with disabilities is an afterthought…
This project examines how workplaces and productivity tools can be made more inclusive to people of all abilities, including tools for remote work.
Ada is the first first architectural pavilion project to incorporate artificial intelligence, Ada’s knitted light immerses visitors in a responsive and interactive glow of photoluminescence driven by individual and collective expression data gathered and housed within Microsoft Research Building 99.
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This project examines issues around AI FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) and Responsible AI, with a particular focus on how AI systems impact people with disabilities. This includes ensuring that mainstream AI tools are inclusively designed such that they…
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Ambrosia is a programming language independent approach for authoring and deploying highly robust distributed applications. Ambrosia dramatically lowers development and deployment costs and time to market by automatically providing recovery and high availability. Today’s datacenter oriented applications, which include most…
Advances in graphics and machine learning algorithms have led to the general availability of easy-to-use tools for modifying and synthesizing media. The proliferation of these tools threatens democracies around the world by enabling widespread distribution of false information to billions…
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adjective: resilient… able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. The Cyber Resilient Platforms Program (CyReP) is a Microsoft-led industry initiative to improve the security and resiliency of computers, with particular emphasis on cloud-managed IoT devices. The CyReP Program…
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This project illustrates how complex data can be visualized using a web browser in both mixed and plain reality to immerse a user in a story and communicate insights. Immersive visualization and storytelling techniques allow insights in complex data to…