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Simplifying Oligonucleotide Primer Design Software to Keep Pace with an Ever Increasing Demand for Assay Formats Kenneth 'Kirby' Bloom, Illumina Corporation Integration of Sequence Analysis into

Exploration of Real-Time Provenance-Aware Virtual Sensors Across Scales for Studying Complex Environmental Systems Yong Liu, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

An Interactive Modeling Environment for Systems Biology of Aging Pat Langley, Arizona State University

A (q,k,t)-design matrix is an m by n matrix whose pattern of zeros/non-zeros satisfies the following design-like condition: Each row has at most q non-zeros, each column has at least k non-zeros and

In this talk we consider the quality of equilibria in Generalized Second Price Auction, a simple model of auctions widely used in the newly developing markets for search advertising .

Jim Gray eScience Award Presentation This year, Microsoft Research presents the Jim Gray eScience Award to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive

Heterogeneous multi-core processors, such as the IBM Cell processor, can deliver high performance.

I want to accomplish two things in this talk.

I will be discussing our research activities in the area of hardware Trojans in wireless cryptographic integrated circuits.

Does evolutionary selection operate on groups as well as individuals? Why are exchanges often fair when they could be exploitative? Why are there stable societies at all?

Traditional frame-based speech recognition technologies build sequence models of temporally dense vector time series representations that account for the entirety of the speech signal.

Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood.

The e-Heritage project converts assets that form our cultural heritage into digital forms so that we can utilize such forms: * For preservation in digital form of our irreplaceable treasures for

This talk introduces theoretical foundations for system architectures and algorithms for creating truly robust autonomic systems -- systems that are able to recover automatically from unexpected

We prove that if T is a tree on n vertices with maximum degree D and the edge probability p(n) satisfies: np c max{D*log n,n^{\epsilon}} for some positive \epsilon0, then with high probability (w.h.p.

The coupling of the physical world with information technology promises to help meet increasing demands for efficient, sustainable, and secure management of our built infrastructure and natural

The privacy of most GSM phone conversations is currently protected by the 20+ years old A5/1 and A5/2 stream ciphers, which were repeatedly shown to be cryptographically weak.

We present the fastest known algorithm for solving symmetric diagonally dominant (SDD) systems.

Each speaker will give a 12 minute presentation of their work and then there will be an open discussion.

We talk about two unsupervised classification projects in which the provided data have a low dimensional structure.

ΓÇ£Medicine is a social scienceΓÇ¥, this has been the mantra of public health since 1848. Today, medicine is a computational social science.

Virtual Machine Reset Vulnerabilities and Hedged Cryptography Tom Ristenpart, UC San Diego Virtual machines are widely used to, for example, support cloud computing services and improve home desktop

Solving stochastic optimization problems under partial observability, where one needs to adaptively make decisions with uncertain outcomes, is a fundamental but notoriously difficult challenge.

We discuss the latest developments on linear system solvers for very large sparse Symmetric Diagonally Dominate system (SDD).

Consider the standard Ising model on a finite n x n grid at low temperature.

False sharing is an insidious problem for multi-threaded programs running on multicore processors, where it can silently degrade performance and scalability.

This lecture will provide an overview of the scope and evaluation of renewable energy resources from the National Renewable Energy Labs located in Golden, CO.

Started within MSR as a research effort, The Zumobi Network has evolved into a publisher of premium mobile apps (Motor Trend, MSNBC, Popular Science, and 30 more).

I will discuss two projects that I have worked on whose goals are to bring more of the power of programming to non-programmers.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Microsoft Research We construct a simple fully homomorphic encryption scheme, using only elementary modular arithmetic.