Part 1: Introduction and Basic Theory > Part 2: Accounting for Bug Fixes > Part 4: Step By Step Guide This is just a summary of the previous chapters as a flow chart (click here for the derivation of the method): Here variable meanings are: External…
Each year, Microsoft Research Asia welcomes a new group of Korean interns, who spend three months or more conducting exciting research. Like all Microsoft Research interns, these talented young scientists derive several benefits from their internships, not the least of which is the mentorship of…
Through our collaborations with academic researchers around the world, Microsoft Research strives to harness the power and potential of computer science. We are constantly looking for new, creative uses of computing to help solve both theoretical and practical problems and engender economic and social benefits.…
Part 1: Introduction and Basic Theory > Part 3: Harsh Reality That simple logic is nice, but practice makes it questionable for at least two reasons: Bugs found by either of the parties are fixed. After that, another party gets no chances to find them…
Part 1: Introduction Probably every piece of software has some defects in it. Known defects (also called bugs) are found by manufacturers and users and fixed. Unknown ones remain there, waiting to be discovered some day. The question is: how big is that unknown set?…
“Scottish independence: polls show it’s too close to call.” “Scotland’s vote likely to be a nail-biter.” “Scottish independence vote on a knife edge as polls put both Yes AND No ahead.” If there was any consensus in the days running up to the momentous Sept.…
Posted by Rob Knies The IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award is one of the industry's most prestigious honors. Friday, September 19th, the IEEE Computer Society announced the presentation of the 2014 award to Microsoft Researcher Emeritus Gordon Bell, for "his exceptional contributions…
Posted by Rob Knies On September 4, Junichi Tsujii, Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research's Beijing lab, received the Funai Achievement Award at the Forum on Information Technology (FIT), for his pioneering work on Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Text Mining for Biology. Held this…
Microsoft Research’s various summer schools provide excellent opportunities to work with our academic partners to foster the next generation of computer scientists and breakthrough applications. So with great anticipation, I headed to Moscow for the 2014 summer school in Russia, which took place over the…
Posted by Rob Knies Search, categorization, accessibility—these are what customers gain from the Microsoft Azure Media Services Indexer, launched Sept. 10. The Indexer, formerly known as the Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service (MAVIS), is being announced right before IBC2014, being held in Amsterdam from Sept.…
Big data: it’s the hot topic these days, promising breakthroughs in just about every field, from medicine to marketing to machine learning and more. But for many of us, the problems of managing big data hit home when we confront the welter of digital photos…
The following blog is from guest contributor Paul Greenfield of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. He and his colleagues have developed a new correction tool to address the problem of DNA sequencing errors in biological and ecological research, and they have just released it to…
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