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The fifth Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held on Friday April 27, 2018, in Redmond, WA.

Episode 39 | August 29, 2018 The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr.

In the quest for higher performance, modern CPUs make heavy use of speculative execution.

Edge computing is a natural evolution of cloud computing, where server resources, ranging from a credit-card size computers to micro data centers, are placed closer to data and information

Confidential computing allows users to upload encrypted code and data to the cloud and get encrypted results back with guaranteed privacy.

Developing and testing real-world AI is an expensive and time-consuming process.

Emerging networked systems, e.g., distributed storage and machine learning platforms, demand high-performance networking.

Today, many of the technical products and services we use are created by one largely homogeneous group of people: men. That doesn’t make today’s technology bad or unhelpful.

This session will provide academic researchers the opportunity to discuss their work in this space and Microsoft practitioners to describe the current state of continuous deployment practices within

Get a closer look at how the Open Network Emulator started in research and then transferred into product. Related: Interested in a preview trial of the Open Network Emulator?

Learn how research is solving for the new challenges of reliability and why the emulation is more important than ever and what the Open Network Emulator brings us to a new level of reliability.

Mark R. Abbott, PhD, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution attended the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018.

When realized, quantum computing will make a giant leap forward from today’s technology—one that will forever alter our economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscapes.

Roch Guerin, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis attended the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018.

Dan Fay, Senior Director, & Donald Kossmann, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Redmond Lab were the Co-Program Chairs of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018.

What does cloud storage of the future look like? When you build storage at the cloud-scale this creates new opportunities as well as new challenges.

As systems become increasingly complicated, cater to large geographical areas, have to seamlessly utilize an incredibly diverse array of computational resources and serve real-time, safety and

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Increasing availability of the data, coupled with breakthroughs in Machine Learning and AI, have raised the ambitions of the enterprises to exploit insights from data to transform their businesses.

Open platform for AI (Open PAI) is an open-source platform for GPU cluster management and resource scheduling.

We present a prototype of time-of-flight depth-sensing technology, which will be adopted in Project Kinect for Azure as well as in the next-generation of HoloLens.

Blockchains are an emerging technology that promises to transform contracts and transactions between mutually untrusted entities.

The goal of Project Fiddle is to build systems infrastructure to systematically speed-up distributed deep neural network (DNN) training while eking out the most from the resources used.

Bugs in security-critical system software already cost society billions of dollars, and the need for secure software is increasing as more devices are connected to the Internet.

The modern datacenter fabric increasingly includes programmable devices capable of increasingly sophisticated processing – ranging from programmable switches that support in-network computation to

This project is exploring ways to create intelligent and efficient cloud platforms by leveraging machine learning (ML) techniques.

The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science.

We demonstrate a robot to assist (not replace) a human receptionist.

As systems become increasingly complicated, cater to large geographical areas, have to seamlessly utilize an incredibly diverse array of computational resources and serve real-time, safety and

The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science.