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Microsoft Shines at NSDI ’18 

April 6, 2018 | Victor Bahl
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure are committed to developing technologies that make our data centers the most reliable and high-performance data centers on the planet. We also are committed to extending the state of the art in cloud computing by sharing our ideas openly and…

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  1. Microsoft Shines at NSDI ’18 

    April 6, 2018 | Victor Bahl

    Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure are committed to developing technologies that make our data centers the most reliable and high-performance data centers on the planet. We also are committed to extending the state of the art in cloud computing by sharing our ideas openly and…

  2. Burton Smith wearing a blue shirt

    Honoring Burton Smith, a creative visionary in computing 

    April 4, 2018

    Burton J. Smith, an internationally recognized leader in high performance computer architecture, a co-founder of Cray, Inc. and a Microsoft technical fellow who innovated in the field of parallel computing and devoted his life to helping others, died April 3 at Regional Hospital in Highline…

  3. Four Big Bets For Better AI Research: A Personal Journey 

    March 29, 2018 | Sumit Gulwani

    It’s a big shift to change from being motivated by getting published in prestigious conferences and journals, to being motivated by solving real problems for real people. Halfway through my 18-year research career working on program synthesis–the task of automatically constructing a program that satisfies…

  4. Microsoft and Tsinghua University Work Together on Open Academic Data Research 

    March 22, 2018

    In a recent collaboration, Microsoft and China’s Tsinghua University released an academic graph, named Open Academic Graph (OAG). This billion-scale academic graph integrates the current Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) and Tsinghua's AMiner academic graph. Specifically, it contains the metadata information of 155 million academic paper…

  5. SwiftKey 7.0: A big change under a small ‘+’ 

    March 20, 2018

    Last week’s rollout of SwiftKey 7.0 is the intelligent keyboard app’s biggest update since joining Microsoft in April 2016. Available on both Android and iOS, SwiftKey 7.0 debuts Toolbar, an expandable menu found under a new '+' sign on the left of your prediction bar…

  6. Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research 

    February 15, 2018 | Meredith Ringel Morris

    Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce. The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant…

  7. I Chose STEM – Event Recap 

    February 14, 2018 | Jessica Mastronardi

    Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and research community stakeholders joined Microsoft Research for inspirational keynotes, workshops…

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