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Spencer Fowers

Principal Member of Technical Staff

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Dans l’actualité | BBC

Find out how holoportation 3D telemedicine technology is helping patients in Ghana.

black and white photos of Dr. Spencer Fowers, a member of the Special Projects Technical Staff at Microsoft Research and Dr. Kwame Darko, a plastic surgeon in the reconstructive plastic surgery and burns center in Ghana’s Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, next to the Microsoft Research Podcast "R" logo
Podcast de recherche Microsoft

| Gretchen Huizinga, Spencer Fowers, et Dr. Kwame Darko

A global team of medical providers is leveraging Holoportation, a Microsoft 3D capture and communication technology, to widen access to specialized care. Computer engineer Spencer Fowers and plastic surgeon Kwame Darko discuss the collaboration.

A picture captured at the Telemedicine rig in Accra depicting a male black patient seated inside the rig, with multiple Azure Kinect cameras positioned around him. He is engaged in a conversation with a doctor standing beside him.
Blog de recherche Microsoft

Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to…

Dans l’actualité | WSJ Tech News Briefing podcast

Cloud storage centers suck up a lot of energy. But when Microsoft tried putting data centers underwater a couple of years ago, it found the strategy greatly reduced energy use and improved performance. Now a U.S. startup called Subsea Cloud…

Dans l’actualité | NHS

Ground-breaking technology aiming to bring specialist treatment to the most remote parts of Scotland, without the need for travel, has received high praise from patients during successful trials in Glasgow. The West of Scotland Innovation Hub, hosted by NHS Greater…

Dans l’actualité | Zacks

Microsoft (MSFT) recently labelled its Northern Isles experiment a success, as the subsea data center was found to be cost and energy efficient as well as reliable. The tech giant retrieved its submerged data center for analysis from the seafloor…

Dans l’actualité | DataCenter Knowledge

Underwater data centers are a go, Microsoft said Monday, a couple months after its researchers pulled their experimental sealed capsule of a data center out of the ocean off the shores of Orkney Islands, in Scotland, where it had been…

Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories

Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater…

Dans l’actualité | CNBC

Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Scotland. The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers. Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for up to five years without…