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The machine translation and text summarization communities have both benefitted greatly from the introduction of automated evaluation procedures.

Modern technology presents chip designers with challenges that will fundamentally alter how processors work and how we design all aspects of computer systems.  The first portion of my talk presents

Microsoft Research – 6 сентября 2016, 6:22

Mobile wireless ad hoc networks (MANETs) have important applications including military command and control, collaborative and distributed computing, emergency services and sensing networks.

The extraordinary human construct that is the World Wide Web is a truly Disruptive Technology.

Pairwise similarity functions are ubiquitous in data mining and machine learning algorithms.

In 2003 Mark Bickford and I defined and formalized a logic of events for specifying distributed computing tasks and for reasoning about distributed systems.  The Logic of Events is a very abstract

Doctoroff will be discussing the sociological and anthropological work behind his book Billions. Specifically, how to create brands that appeal to the New Chinese Consumer -- all 1.3 billion of them.

Combining the outputs from multiple retrieval sources/engines is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retrieval and meta-search.

Abstract: Testing with manually generated test cases is the primary technique used in industry to improve reliability of software--in fact, such testing is reported to account for over half of the

Shel Israel and Microsoft's own Robert Scoble will discuss how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers.

For both humans and machines, the ability to learn and categorize natural scenes as well as the objects within is an essential and important functionality.

Several academic and industry studies have documented substantial improvements in code design and defect rate when programs are written by pairs of programmers (two people working

In the seminar, I will describe a user study of a novel information seeking interface that provides support for multi-faceted information seeking and targeted relevance feedback.

The sensing, computing, communication, and actuation capabilities of wireless sensor networks are increasingly enabling us to observe and control the physical world.

Structured data prediction is the problem of assigning labels (or segmentations) given the observations with particular inherent structures, such as parsing for English sentences or structure

This talk will be focused on the following three pieces of work that we have done: (1)   How to utilize unlabeled data in classification?

Previously, human computer interaction (HCI) issues in ubiquitous or pervasive computing and virtual and augmented reality have been largely carried out in separate research communities.

There has been significant activity on the application of wireless technologies to solve asset management problems across a number of industries.

We consider a dynamic auction problem motivated by the traditional single-leg, multi-period revenue management problem.

Someday soon, a ninth-grade biology class, the EPA, and a police department may each seek information from the sensors in a single instrumented city park.

Developing correct multithreaded software is very challenging, due to the potential for unintended interference between threads.

In the TREC 2005 Spam Evaluation Track, a number of popular spam filters - all owing their heritage to Graham's A

What has prompted Brazil, like most of Latin America, to move away from neo-liberalism? Why do the U.S. mainstream media and the Bush Administration view this political shift with suspicion?

One of the major design concerns in sensor networks is their sensing performance.

Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a notoriously difficult model for crystal growth introduced in 1981 by Sander and Witten.

Fix m,n positive integers.

Our use of ordinary desktop applications (email, Web, calendars, etc) is often a manifestation of the activities with which we are engaged.

Does customer satisfaction equal greater profits? Does the customer know what she wants? How can we turn simply satisfied customers into vocal advocates for our businesses?

Modern computer systems desire several properties, such as high performance, reliability and manageability. To deliver these properties requires a lot of human effort which is costly and error-prone.