Researchers build nanoscale computational circuit boards with DNA
By Microsoft Research Human-engineered systems, from ancient irrigation networks to modern semiconductor circuitry, rely on spatial organization to guide the flow of materials and information. Living cells also use spatial organization to control and accelerate…
Drowsiness Onset Detection
99DOTS: Using Mobile Phones to Ensure Complete Recovery from Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a completely curable disease, yet over 1 million people die from TB every year. One of the major challenges is to ensure that patients complete a full six-month course of antibiotics, which…
Tech Showcase: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment
Project InnerEye is a new AI product targeted at improving the productivity of oncologists, radiologists, and surgeons when working with radiological images. The project’s main focus is in the treatment of tumors and monitoring the…
Reconfigurable Acceleration of Genomic Data Processing
This talk presents recent advances in speeding up the processing of genomic data, making use of reconfigurable data flow engines based on field programmable gate arrays. Our design involves the FM-index technique and exploits the…