Posted by Rob Knies People need food, regularly and often. That’s such an obvious truth that’s it’s easy to lose sight of it—easy, that is, until calamity strikes and the food supply is endangered, as it could be in the wake of ongoing changes to…
The fifteenth annual Microsoft Faculty Summit is over, but you can still experience much of it on demand. I was really inspired and energized by the keynotes, session topics, and discussions—especially meeting, talking to, and hearing from researchers in other areas who I don’t normally…
Introduction (Part I) > Heuristics Zoo, Part 1/2 > Note: standard Disclaimer expressed in Part I applies here as well. Heuristic 5: "Area Expertise" and "Penetration Testing" These two seemingly different techniques share a lot in how they approach managing the complexity of security reviews,…
Posted by Jennifer Warnick Station Q, headquarters of potentially world-changing quantum-computing research, is located just past where the Pacific Ocean meets the sand, up through a grove of palm trees and across a bike path. (Do mind the shirtless college student zipping past on a…
Initially meant to fit into one chapter, this text grew quickly and I had to split it into two. So there will be four parts of the article in total. See Introduction (or Part 1) > <Disclaimer>By no means this list is "complete". I think every…
Posted by Rob Knies Perhaps you’ve heard about Project Adam over the last few days. That work, which shows that large-scale, commodity distributed systems are able to train extra-large deep neural networks efficiently, has received its share of attention in the tech media this week…
Click here if you want to skip all the theory and just go to the Security Reviews Heuristics Zoo If you are a software security professional, you might've been asked sometimes to conduct a "security design review". If you felt lost at that point, this…
When we released the Lab of Things a year ago, we knew that it would benefit researchers experimenting with connected devices in various domains. It has been very gratifying to see how the Lab of Things has helped to accelerate research on helping people with…
Posted by Rob Knies Software development is not for the faint-hearted. Programmers often work long hours, typing code while staring at computer monitors. Computer software can include millions of lines of code, so given the nature and the volume of the work involved, mistakes are…
We’re here at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington, where the first day of the 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is underway. The event kicked off with an opening keynote from Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Development and Research group, during which…
Can you tell the difference between the two breeds of corgis? If you’re like many, you probably are barely even aware that such dogs exist, let alone the fact that there are two—and only two—kinds of corgis. Add the detail that those two breeds are…
Posted by Rob Knies Cortana, the personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, certainly has received plenty of attention since being announced in April. Her ability to make your day-to-day life easier by managing your information and keeping you up to date has made her one…
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