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Current spoken dialogue systems (SDS) typically employ hand-crafted decision networks or flow-charts to determine what action to take at each point in a conversation.

Using Machine Learning to Characterize, Predict and Optimize System Behavior - Presented by Archana Ganapathi Abstract: Systems have become very complex and it is often difficult to maintain an

This is the story of two people playing chess in a smoky café in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. The two people are Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, a radical art movement and V.I.

One of the toughest jobs in business is taking over as a new leader.

In the modern world, not only is software getting larger and more complex, it is also becoming pervasive in our daily lives.

Does place matter for digital information? If so, how? Research points to the importance of place-like senses of direction, context, connection and control when managing digital information.

Integrating the arts with computer science can open doors to discovery and creation and point the way to new understandings of the aesthetic in interactions with digital technologies.

Why do we recycle bottles yet drive miles to purchase groceries? We take bags to the grocery story but buy fruits there shipped from South America.

The first half of this talk will discuss scalable methods for performing particular object search via visual queries in very large datasets of unordered images.

We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other.

The automatic repair of programs has been a longstanding goal in software engineering, yet debugging remains a largely manual process.

Microsoft Research, MSPAC and Community Affairs are pleased to invite you to a riveting discussion with Dr.

Most thinking about money assumes your financial life is separate from the rest of your life, but it is time to put those things back together.

Traditionally, due to its complexity, parallel programming has been an exclusive domain of expert programmers.

The recent development and success of computer gaming classes and gaming-themed curricula are exciting and have demonstrated interesting potentials.

A major challenge of the industry-wide shift to multicore processing is what to do with large legacy software that was not written with parallelism in mind.

Curves of genus 2 have an associated abelian surface, their jacobian. One can classify genus 2 curves according to special properties of their jacobians.

The complex multiplication method (CM method) builds an algebraic curve over a given finite field GF(q) and having an easily computable cardinality.

Normalisation by Evaluation is a technique to efficiently compute the normal form of, possibly open, lambda terms with respect to beta reduction and rewrite rules.

Lifelogging is a term used to describe recording different aspects of your daily life, in digital form, for your own exclusive personal use.

Every distributed storage system makes tradeoffs between performance, resource usage, consistency, and availability to meet its environment or design goals.

Protecting confidentiality of data manipulated by programs is a growing concern in various application domains.

Why do we place consciousness within the confines of the brain?

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates gave the first economic speech of his life challenging fellow entrepreneurs, non profit pioneers, economists and academics to pursue the idea of

Many real-world applications such as gene expression clustering and collaborative filtering can be modeled by matrix factorization.

Browsers are rapidly improving as a platform for compelling, interactive applications. Unfortunately, the Web security model is still not fully understood.

This talk will demonstrate how to model, measure, interpret and control light transport in volumetric media such as murky water, bad weather, and translucent materials.

The aim of this project is to use statistical machine learning to predict a system's performance and resource utilization under changes to the workload or underlying hardware.

ASHRAE and server manufacturers specify a temperature range for the inlet air into servers. Yet most cooling control is based on return or supply temperature at the cooling unit.

What enables us to innovate, problem-solve and be happy, smart, resilient human beings? Our ability to play.