Attendees of the kickoff workshop for the Swiss JRC
A two-day workshop at Microsoft Research Cambridge that began Wednesday launched seven new projects that represent the next wave of research collaborations for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), including work in energy-efficient memory systems and flying robots.
The Swiss JRC is a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, which serves German-speaking students) and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, which serves French-speaking students).
As the Microsoft Research Connections Blog reports, the Swiss JRC “is a continuation of a collaborative engagement that began five years ago, when these same three partners embarked on ICES (Innovation Cluster for Embedded Software). In renewing our collaboration, we have broadened and deepened the computer science engagements, as we chart a course for another five years of research.”
During the workshop, EPFL’s Edouard Bugnion described the planned work of the Scale-Out NUMA project, which involves the study of the computer architectural and system software implications of aggressive scale-out, energy-efficient computing in datacenters.
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zürich), discussed human-centric flight. “This proposed research seeks to create an entirely new form of interactive systems, leveraging micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs), also known as flying robots, to create novel user experiences. This project could have a profound impact on our future ability to navigate environments that are inhospitable to people or standard land-based robots.”
Find out more about these and the other five projects, which “represent some of the most interesting and engaging research challenges in Microsoft Research’s broad portfolio of university partnerships,” on the Microsoft Research Connections Blog.
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Athima Chansanchai
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