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…
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A profile of Station Q, where Microsoft researchers work to harness the power of quantum computing.
| Eugene Bobukh
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…
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…
| Eugene Bobukh
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…
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Reusing weaker passwords in some cases can improve security, researchers say.
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…
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…
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…