Microsoft Research

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Bridging the Gap Between Formal and Informal Learning with Mobile Devices and 'Counting People Waiting in Service Lines Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Techniques'

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Over the past decade, the pervasive use of advanced object-oriented languages like Java and the increasing complexity of tasks accomplished by software have led to the proliferation of large

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Parallelism and energy efficiency have emerged as critical considerations in future computing systems.

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The networks in campuses, companies, and data centers are growing larger and becoming more complicated to manage.

LACCIR & FAPESP Projects ΓÇ£Live Andes (Advanced Network for the Distribution of Endangered Species): A New Tool for Wildlife ConservationΓÇ¥ Cristian Bonacic, Professor, Ecosystems and Environment

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It is typically expected that when people work together, they can often accomplish goals that are difficult or even impossible for individuals.

For several years, computing products were designed mainly with the purpose of increasing efficiency and productivity at work.

Artists and scientists have used photography to portray events occurring over a broad range of timescales, from pico-seconds to tera-seconds.

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Semi-supervised learning algorithms are designed to learn an unknown concept from a partially-labeled data set of training examples.

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An individualΓÇÖs learning rule is completely uncoupled if it does not depend on the actions or payoffs of anyone else.

This talk will introduce a new programming/architectural execution model for parallel threads.

Harold Javid speaking for Catharine van Ingen

Keynote Panel Session ΓÇ£Science, Technology and Innovation Strategies for Promoting CompetitivenessΓÇ¥ Dr.

Local circuits in the cerebral cortex consist of tens of thousands of neurons, each of which makes and receives thousands of connections.

Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people (ΓÇ¥workersΓÇ¥) as an open call (e.g., on AmazonΓÇÖs Mechanical Turk).

Joint work with Sebastian Faust, Tal Rabin, Eran Tromer, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Computational devices leak side-channel information that may, and often does, reveal secret internal states.

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Server applications, such as databases and web servers, are notorious for executing poorly on modern processors, specially when compared to scientific applications.