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2015 Oscars Prediction Model Navigates Backlash, Outrage, Shifting Sentiment 

February 18, 2015
Posted by George Thomas Jr. "Selma" director Ava DuVernay wasn't nominated, but she still could affect who wins the Oscar.(Photo by Atsushi-Nishijima. ©2014 Paramount Pictures) (Editor's Note: Researcher David Rothschild is receiving significant press coverage the day after the Oscars as he correctly predicted 20…

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  1. 2015 Oscars Prediction Model Navigates Backlash, Outrage, Shifting Sentiment 

    February 18, 2015

    Posted by George Thomas Jr. "Selma" director Ava DuVernay wasn't nominated, but she still could affect who wins the Oscar.(Photo by Atsushi-Nishijima. ©2014 Paramount Pictures) (Editor's Note: Researcher David Rothschild is receiving significant press coverage the day after the Oscars as he correctly predicted 20…

  2. Orleans Simplifies Development of Scalable Apps for the Cloud 

    February 17, 2015

    By Janie Chang Many real-time services such as e-commerce, online gaming, and social media depend on cloud-computing platforms. Designing those services to be scalable and reliable, however, is a challenge. Until now. On January 23, 2015, Microsoft released Orleans, an open-source platform that provides a…

  3. Building the talent pipeline: the HKUST joint lab story 

    February 13, 2015

    The following is the second of three blogs on the contributions of the Microsoft Research Asia Joint Lab Program (JLP), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The JLP brings together the resources of Microsoft Research and major Chinese universities, facilitating collaboration on state-of-the-art research, academic…

  4. Microsoft Researchers’ Algorithm Sets ImageNet Challenge Milestone 

    February 10, 2015

    Posted by Richard Eckel The race among computer scientists to build the world’s most accurate computer vision system is more of a marathon than a sprint. The race’s new leader is a team of Microsoft researchers in Beijing, which this week published a paper in…

  5. Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs 

    February 9, 2015

    Microsoft researcher Jasmin Fisher credits multidisciplinary approach By Microsoft Research and the University of Cambridge Editor’s note: This press release is reprinted with the permission of the University of Cambridge, and is followed by a Q&A with Dr. Jasmin Fisher, a senior researcher with Microsoft…

  6. Trill Moves Big Data Faster, by Orders of Magnitude 

    January 27, 2015

    Posted by George Thomas Jr. In today’s high-productivity computing environments that process dizzying amounts of data each millisecond, a research project named for “a trillion events per day” may seem relatively ordinary. But when you understand that Trill, a new high-performance streaming analytics engine developed…

  7. Eric Horvitz Receives AAAI Feigenbaum Prize; Shares Reflections On AI Research 

    January 27, 2015

    Posted by Eric Horvitz Editor's note: Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond Lab, shares some reflections upon receiving the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. Horvitz is being recognized by the AAAI for "sustained and high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through the development…

  8. Joint lab marks 10 years of collaborative research in natural language processing 

    January 6, 2015

    The following is the first of three blogs on the contributions of the Microsoft Research Asia Joint Lab Program (JLP), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The JLP brings together the resources of Microsoft Research and major Chinese universities, facilitating collaboration on state-of-the-art research, academic…

  9. Equation of a Fuzzing Curve — Part 2/2 

    January 6, 2015 | Eugene Bobukh

    See Part 1> Can you predict how many bugs will be found at infinity? No. There seems to be a fundamental limit on fuzzing curve extrapolation. To see that, consider bug distribution function of the following form: where p0 >> p1 but a0 ≈ a1…

  10. Academia and industry unite to teach big data research 

    December 31, 2014

    Big data—that buzzword seems to dominate information technology discussions these days. But big data is so much more than a clever catchphrase: it’s a reality that holds enormous potential. We now have the largest and most diversified volume of data in human history. And it’s…

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