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Cells, a fundamental unit of life on this planet, are able to process information deriving both from outside and within to make life-preserving decisions.

It is commonly acknowledged that web-scale collections have outgrown the capabilities of individual machines, necessitating the use of clusters to tackle many problems in information retrieval.

Tony Hey presents the Jim Gray eScience Award at the Microsoft Research 2011 eScience Workshop in Stockholm.

Forest ecosystems store more carbon than the atmosphere and contain 2/3 of the world's biodiversity but their response to changing climate is uncertain.

Creating ground truth for optical flow in natural outdoor environments seems almost impossible. In this talk, I will propose two approaches we are currently investigating.

In this presentation I will outline two projects which I have been working on during my PhD.

This talk describes a commercial hybrid content delivery service, Akamai's Download Manager (DLM).

Software professionals typically divide their work by roles---developers, testers, and so on---, but researchers have yet to examine the nature of these basic elements of organization in detail.

The Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in the world's developing communities.

We will consider the problem of managing a mini-market with! two checkout counters, one of them serving as an express lane.

The goal of machine learning algorithms is to produce predictors having the smallest possible risk (expected loss).

This seminar consists of four mini talks to be presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Hangzhou, China, October 17-19, 2011.

Although many patients appreciate access to their health information through personal health records (PHRs) and patient portals, such tools provide support for only a narrow slice of patientΓÇÖs

iSAX 2.0: Indexing and Mining One Billion Time Series abstract -------- There is an increasingly pressing need, by several applications in diverse domains, for developing techniques able to index

Bernoulli-logistic Latent Gaussian Models (bLGMs) subsume many popular models for binary data, such as Bayesian logistic regression, Gaussian process classification, probabilistic principal

Research in quantum computing has offered many important new physical insights as well as the potential of exponentially increasing the computational power that can be harnessed to solve important

Seasonal and year-to-year variations in leaf cover, also known as phenology, imprint significant spatial and temporal variability on biogeochemical cycles, and affect land-surface properties related

Microsoft has installed ΓÇ£WindowsΓÇ¥ through which the educated can see the beautiful colors of the world.

The touch screen is the preeminent human-computer interface of our times. Touch input technologies such as the projected capacitance sensors found on many smart phones are rapidly advancing.

TouchDevelop is a new a software development environment that runs on the Windows Phone itself, no separate PC required.

A natural response to unsustainable increases in energy production and use is to seek ways that each of us can decrease our energy footprint.

Correspondence analysis and ancillary data analysis and visualization methods, such as hierarchical clustering, constitute a powerful and versatile platform for data mining and machine learning.

Day 1 recap and discussion

Invited Demonstrations (Session II; 10 minutes/demonstrator) Moderator: Alberto Pepe, postdoctoral associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics RESOURCES Seamless technologies for

We design efficient algorithms to compute dominant strategy truthful mechanisms for a risk-averse seller, in Bayesian single-parameter and multi-parameter settings.

The Microsoft Kinect has received little to no attention by the hardware community, specifically those interested in reconfigurable hardware via field-programmable gate-arrays (FGPAs).

Invited Demonstrations (Session II; 10 minutes/demonstrator) Moderator: Alberto Pepe, postdoctoral associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics RESOURCES Seamless technologies for

Invited Demonstrations (Session II; 10 minutes/demonstrator) Moderator: Alberto Pepe, postdoctoral associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics RECOGNITION How can we best enable

Invited Demonstrations (Session II; 10 minutes/demonstrator) Moderator: Alberto Pepe, postdoctoral associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics REVIEW Standard publication-based systems

Invited Demonstrations (Session II; 10 minutes/demonstrator) Moderator: Alberto Pepe, postdoctoral associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics REVIEW Standard publication-based systems